Sadly it's unlikely that we'll ever be able to visit Kepler-70b. At a distance of 4,015 light-years from Earth, it would take an extraordinary amount of time to reach. Later Apollo spaceships ...

That's exactly what scientists theorize about Kepler-70b (or KOI-55 b). According to astronomers, this scorched, barren, rocky exoplanet sits comfortably around 12,000 °F, over 2,000 °F hotter ...

Kepler 70b is really close to its star, making it the hottest known exoplanet: 7,143K, or more than 12,300 degrees Fahrenheit. That's hotter than parts of our own sun. SEE ALSO: Outrage after ...

Kepler-70b, a planet hotter than the Sun at 6,800°C, is described by NASA as “another circle of hell.” Located 4,000 light-years away, this fiery world is no ordinary exoplanet. This infernal ...

An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. Kepler-70b is an exoplanet discovered orbiting the subdwarf B star Kepler-70. It is also the hottest known exoplanet as of ...

(Photo: Nasa) Discovered in 2011, Kepler-70b (also known as KOI-55) could easily be described as a circle of hell, according to Nasa. With temperatures soaring higher than the surface of the Sun ...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft should have been rendered useless by a 2013 hardware failure, but instead its secondary mission -- called K2 -- has just yielded its first major discovery in the form of ...

The scorching 6,800C planet is called Kepler-70b (or KOI-55b), and it's just over 4,000 light-years from Earth. The planet is believed to have once been a gas giant – but evaporation has ...