Scientists publishing in Astrophysical Journal Letters say they've used space telescopes to record faint light from the distant planet to get a... Scientists are reasonably sure that it's a cloudy day ...

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 ...

Kepler-7b is to date the only exoplanet for which clouds have been inferred from the optical phase curve — from visible-wavelength whole-disk brightness measurements as a function of orbital phase.

Scientists are reasonably sure that it's a cloudy day on Kepler-7b, a planet that orbits its star about 1,000 light-years away from us. Using NASA's orbiting space telescopes, researchers publishing ...