A massive exoplanet 750 light-years away is shrouded in near-total darkness—its atmosphere so black, it reflects almost no ...

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 ...

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 1 percent of the sunlight ...

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 ...

The dark exoplanet has been identified as TrES-2B. According to NASA, TrES-2B is an extrasolar planet, which means it lies beyond the Solar System. Observations on the exoplanet revealed that it ...

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 ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 ...