Sentences with phrase «around alien stars»

Spinning stars slow as they grow older, and this rotational rate could be key to detecting life on planets around alien stars.

Not exact matches

Alien worlds, like Earth, are shielded from cosmic rays by magnetic bubbles around their sun — trouble is, stars have a tendency to drop their guard

No one knows if there are any planets around that star, nor if aliens will be in residence by the time the probe arrives.

Nobody could possibly expect to luck onto an alien broadcast that easily, unless there happened to be technologically advanced civilizations lurking around just about every star.

The odds of an alien invasion got a boost from the discovery of vaguely Earth - like planets around other stars, but we still have no idea if alien civilizations exist.

That makes the system, around a star called TRAPPIST - 1, a prime target in the search for signs of alien life.

In the past year, astronomers searching for planets around other stars have found alien worlds that are smaller and younger than any previously known.

I spent hours just whizzing around to new star systems, zooming down to various planets, and using my Abduction Beam to fill the ship's cargo hold with terrified aliens.

Imagine that an alien civilization built large numbers of energy - collection panels and that the panels had a range of sizes and orbits around the star.

MOFFET FIELD, CALIFORNIA — NASA's Kepler space telescope appears to have confirmed the existence of an alien world smaller than our own Earth — the first time such a planet has been discovered around a star like our sun.

The researchers said that alien planets present close to each other around the same parent star can help each other when it comes to supporting life, creating «multihabitable systems».

More than 1,900 exoplanets or alien planets are present around other stars.

Six billion years from now, alien astronomers studying the rocky remains around our burned out sun might reach the same conclusion: terrestrial planets once circled our parent star.

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is an observatory in space dedicated to finding planets outside our solar system, particularly alien planets that are around the same size as Earth in the «habitable» regions of their parent star.

So if there are aliens, they've been incredibly quiet on all fronts — probably too quiet, considering they're meant to have built a Dyson Sphere around their star.

Alien worlds may be forming around a star called NGC 2547 - ID8 and astronomers may have just seen evidence of the collision between two massive asteroids.

Autonomous telescope joins hunt for alien planets and has already found new planets around distant stars.

Many theories and speculations of different types have been proposed to explain the unusual light curve of the star, including a mega structure built by aliens orbiting around it.

The star exhibits weird fluctuations in its brightness, leading a few astronomers to propose — among many other ideas — that maybe a swarm of alien megastructures is orbiting around the object.

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And that is likely because one of the more outlandish (excuse the pun) scientific explanations for the sharp dips in flux observed coming from the star is that aliens have built a mega-structure around the star to harness its energy!

Budgeted at around $ 111 million — or $ 102 million more than the first «Alien» — the new installment stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride and Billy Crudup as real and synthetic crew members on the titular spacecraft.

Amy Adams stars as a linguist who helps the U.S. government communicate with aliens who appear in Montana and 11 others sites around the world.

Built around a mysterious, ancient alien artifact that can transport people instantly between distant planets (that would be the titular Stargate), the flick dabbles in Egyptian mythology; but is mostly an excuse for a rollicking sci - fi adventure starring Kurt Russell and James Spader at their most fun.

Based upon a long - running title that apparently did not overlap with my early teen years spent celibately sulking around comic book shops, Guardians of the Galaxy stars Parks and Recreation's lovable lummox Chris Pratt as Peter Quill, an interstellar slacker doofus catting about the cosmos hooking up with alien chicks and listening to a K - Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's soundtrack on his retro cassette Walkman.

Released just two years after Star Wars, Alien shows space travel in a similarly grimy, no - frills manner — except this time around, the extraterrestrial critters are more killer than cute.

At once a brilliant riff on Star Trek and also one of the best Star Trek movies ever made, Dean Parisot's film revolved around the aging stars of a once - popular sci - fi TV series called Galaxy Quest who, after attending yet another sci - fi convention, are beamed up into space by a group of aliens that think the TV series was a collection of «historical documents.»

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The game brought an all - star voice cast, including David Duchovny as HAZMAT operative Ethan Cole (because who else would you feature in a scifi game about aliens) and Marilyn Manson as the alien Edgar, and a plot that thickened with conspiracy theories not unlike the ones that revolve around the real - life military base.

The actual play set is a lot different to how I imagined it to be, its a completely stand alone piece, set on an alien planet from the Star Command universe, you have a similar job of running around, building buildings, collecting orbs and completing challenges.

Alien - yet - familiar worlds are discovered around distant stars, extreme weather batters the Earth, stimulus spending energizes renewables, and the stem - cell debate reignites.