Sentences with «atmospheres of extrasolar planets»
Eddington is a step toward a proposed mission called Darwin, pegged for 2015, that would study the atmospheres of extrasolar planets and search for life. (sciencemag.org)
«Now that we've shown we can detect oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet, we're in a good position for finding a planet like Earth in the not too remote future,» Vidal - Madjar says. (discovermagazine.com)
Astronomers believe that, in a few decades, we will discover some biological signatures of present or past life in the atmospheres of extrasolar planets, or at least be able to constrain its rarity6. (scientificamerican.com)