Sentences with phrase «candidate planets beyond our solar system»

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As of May 2013, scientists had identified roughly 900 confirmed «exoplanets» - planets beyond our solar system - and more than 2,700 planet candidates.

Astronomers have detected more than 1,000 confirmed planets and almost 5,000 candidates beyond our solar system, with most of them found by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.

Mautner believes there may be hundreds of planets beyond our solar system that are good candidates, perhaps including the recently discovered, «Earth next door.»

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and to date has offered scientists an assortment of more than 4,000 candidate planets for further study — the 1,000 th of which was recently verified.