Sentences with phrase «[planets outside the solar system»

Nicknamed «the planet hunter,» the $ 337 million TESS is a follow - up to NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which spent the last eight years searching the skies for as many planets outside our solar system as possible.

Astronomers have discovered an Earth - sized planet outside our solar system which is expected to be temperate and could be a «comfortable abode for possible life».

Have you measured it outside the solar system?

NASA: Three planets found are some of best candidates so far for habitable worlds outside our solar system.

Therefore light outside the solar system travels faster.

Created by chance, they have no place in the normal and orthodox evolution of astral matter; with the exasperating result that we know nothing for certain about the existence or frequency of occurrence of planets outside the solar system.

Of course, plenty of other scientists are in the hunt for life - supporting worlds outside our solar system.

The discovery of more than 330 planets outside our solar system in recent...

Breaking News NASA: Three planets found are some of best candidates so far for habitable worlds outside our solar system.

For thousands of years there was no evidence that planets outside the solar system existed, but that did not mean they did not.

Although crude, the weather maps may be the first to identify clouds on a planet outside the solar system.

An icy comet just hurtled past the sun on a strange path that suggests it came from outside our solar system, making it the first such interloper we've ever spotted

None of the planets yet found outside our solar system score particularly well.

One molecular anthropologist is revisiting the past, while an astronomer has his eyes pointed skyward, to find habitable worlds outside the solar system.

The discovery of seven Earth - sized planets orbiting a single cool star fuels a debate over what counts as good news in the search for life outside the solar system.

An analysis of planets outside the solar system suggests that most hot, rocky exoplanets started out more like gassy Neptunes.

NASA is stepping up its search for planets outside our solar system.

While they are theoretically predicted to surround giant planets at birth, there has been little observational evidence to date for circumplanetary disks outside the solar system.

«We can use Mars, a planet that we know a lot about, as a laboratory for studying rocky planets outside our solar system, which we don't know much about yet.»

For the first time, water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere of a Neptune - sized planet outside the solar system.

Cosmic rays from outside the solar system can also inject ions into lunar rocks, causing chemical changes that create water.

In January Kepler astronomers announced the discovery of the first definitively rocky planet outside our solar system, Kepler - 10 b.

Kepler - 10b The smallest known planet outside our solar system, it is just 1.4 times as wide as Earth and is as dense as solid iron.

Interestingly, the team found that cosmic rays were at work deeper down below the surface — meaning at least some of the moon's water comes from outside the solar system.

Researchers from Bern have developed a method to simplify the search for Earth - like planets: By using new theoretical models they rule out the possibility of Earth - like conditions, and therefore life, on certain planets outside our solar system — and limit their search by doing so.

Currently extensive observational programs are being developed all over the world, with the aim to detect planets outside our solar system that are able to accommodate life — a sheer impossible task.

«If we understand how early Mars operated, it could tell us something about the potential for finding life on other planets outside the solar system.»

Many planets outside the solar system are even more massive than Jupiter, and they orbit their Sun - like stars at an Earth - like distance, but these faraway super-Jupiters are effectively giant gas balls that can not support life because they lack solid surfaces.

Some astronomers are questioning the existence of what might be the most Earth - like planet yet found outside the solar system, based on a reexamination of archival data.

A new study from the University of Toronto Scarborough suggests the search for life on planets outside our solar system may be more difficult than previously thought.

This is the first object found outside our solar system that is akin to Halley's Comet in composition.

SEATTLE — Astronomers have found so many planets outside our solar system that new ones must break records to get noticed.

Astronomers have gotten the most detailed look yet at the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system.

That makes Proxima b the closest known world outside our solar system where life might exist.

All of which means that Proxima b is far more than the nearest neighboring planet outside our solar system.

Fridlund helped design COROT (for convection, rotation, and planetary transits), ESA's early entry in the race to find rocky, Earth - like planets outside our solar system.

Those theories got a jolt 10 years ago, when astronomers first began discovering planets outside our solar system orbiting other stars.

A pair of neutrinos detected in Antarctica may be the first of these ghostly particles seen coming from outside the solar system since 1987.

Using infrared images recorded by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have created the first weather map of a planet outside our solar system.

For the first time, astronomers have spotted an aurora, akin to our northern and southern lights, shimmering on a world outside our solar system.

Researchers expect to find water on many planets outside the solar system, called exoplanets, including Jupiter - size gas giants such as HD 189733 b and HD 209458 b, which orbits a different star.

Planets orbiting stars outside the Solar System are now known to be very common.

Since the discovery of planets outside our solar system in the 1990s, astronomers have tallied more than 400 extrasolar worlds, many unlike anything known before.

The new planet haul is the biggest yet, bringing the number of confirmed worlds outside our solar system over 3200 - and edges us closer to knowing how many stars host other Earths

Closer to home, the big telescopes have an equally intriguing assignment: to see planets outside our solar system.

If the research holds up, it will be the first time one of the amino acids so essential to life on Earth has been detected outside the solar system.

Using recently discovered planets outside our solar system (exoplanets) as examples, they investigated the potential for these planets to host life.

Almost 1,000 planets outside our solar system have been identified by astronomers.

The unusual trajectory of an asteroid, called A / 2017 U1, suggests it came from outside the solar system and is now on its way out again.

As the pace of discoveries outside our solar system increases, weird worlds are starting to crop up.