The number of planets known to orbit stars beyond the Sun is approaching 1,000, but astronomers have seen only a tiny handful of those alien worlds directly. It’s not that telescopes aren’t powerful ...

On the left is an artist’s recreation of what the clouds look like on a planet called Kepler-7b, a hot Jupiter in orbit around a large, aging star in the constellation Lyra. And, for the first time in ...

The number of confirmed exoplanets, or worlds orbiting distant suns, shot past 1,000 last week, according to the semi-official Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia. That’s pretty heady stuff considering ...

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