This hot-Jupiter exoplanet reflects less than 1% of the ... Click to see a larger version The planet, TrES-2b, orbits its parent star 30 times closer to it than Earth is to our Sun, heating ...

In contrast, TrES-2b (which was discovered in 2006 by the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey, or TrES) lacks reflective clouds due to its high temperature. TrES-2b orbits its star at a distance of ...

It’s so…black! You can hardly make out its shape…light just seems to fall into it! That is the word of David Kipping of the ...

Astronomers have discovered the darkest known exoplanet - a distant, Jupiter-sized gas giant known as TrES-2b. Their measurements show that TrES-2b reflects less than one percent of the sunlight ...

The astronomers think TrES-2b is tidally locked like our moon ... we detected the smallest-ever change in brightness from an exoplanet — just 6 parts per million," said Kipping.

So grab your space suit, fuel up the shuttle, and strap in for an intergalactic tour of the best exoplanets that humanity has discovered so far. Our first stop is the pitch black planet TrES-2b.

since scientists think TrES-2b resides in a binary system) from Earth's perspective. NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which has discovered more than half of the nearly 2,000 known exoplanets to date ...

The planet, called TrES-2b, is so named because it was first spotted by the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey in 2006. It is about 750 light-years away, in the Draco constellation. It also lies in ...

Back in 2011, researchers discovered that another hot gas giant—TrEs 2b—had a surface blacker than coal or acrylic paint absorbing almost all light that reached it. But, unlike WASP-12b ...