When scientists confirmed in October that they had detected the first rocky planet outside our solar system, it advanced the longtime quest to find an Earth-like planet hospitable to life. The rocky ...
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 ...
Last September, astronomers confirmed the first rocky planet ever found outside our solar system, the wonderfully named CoRoT-7 b. Scientists have studied the properties of this cosmic trailblazer, ...
A. Leger, D. Rouan, J. Schneider, P. Barge, M. Fridlund, B. Samuel, M. Ollivier, E. Guenther, M. Deleuil, H.J. Deeg, M. Auvergne, R. Alonso, S. Aigrain, A. Alapini, J ...
Astronomers have determined that a small extra-solar planet found last year by the French-led Corot planet-finding mission and confirmed in February (AW&ST Feb. 9, p. 18) is rocky like Earth. Corot ...