NASA astronomer Brian Jackson has presented information that the exosolar planet Corot-7b is vaporating due to its decreasing distance to its parent star. Its molten surface is so hot that the planet ...

astro-ph: “We conclude that, as far as we have been exhaustive, we have discovered a planetary companion, named CoRoT-7b, for which we derive a period of 0.853 59 +/- 3 10-5 day and a radius of Rp = 1 ...

The existence of COROT-7b suggests other similar planets could exist in an orbit that is cooler and less hostile. Credit: Photo: EPA A new study of the planet, which orbits a star 500 light years away ...

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Oceans of lava might bubble on its surface. Hot pebbles may rain down from the sky. But the extrasolar planet CoRoT-7b is considered to be the most Earthlike world yet found outside our solar system.

Jackson states, "Corot-7b is almost 60 times closer to its star than Earth, so the star appears almost 360 times larger than the sun does in our sky." Because of this close proximity to its star, the ...