Though its terrestrial surface renders CoRoT-7b more similarto Earth than many other exoplanets are, it's still a far cry from a familiarsetting. The planet orbits extremely close to its star ...

"We're at a point now in exoplanet science where we ... Along with four other known planets, Kepler-7b orbits a star more massive than the sun. The cloudy planet orbits the star, Kepler-7, once ...