Sentences with phrase «confirmed alien planets»

Among the 1,900 - and - counting confirmed alien planets found so far, we've seen everything from bizarro, jumbo versions of Jupiter in scorchingly tight orbits to exoplanets dozens of times farther out than Neptune, and even worlds circling two stars, like Tatooine in Star Wars.

Not exact matches

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.

Since launching in 2009, the Kepler spacecraft has revealed 3,601 candidate planets (961 confirmed) comprising an interstellar menagerie: super-Jupiters, super-Earths, mini-Neptunes, and other alien worlds that have defied comparison to those in our own solar system.

BadFly Interactive announced Tau Ceti: Unknown Origin shortly after Dead Effect 2 was released on home consoles; Tau Ceti was referenced within digital communications throughout Dead Effect 2, therefore a sequel to Dead Effect 2 has been confirmed, albeit taking place on an alien planet instead of a spaceship.