Sentences with phrase «detect planets outside our solar system»

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.

Observing this periodic dimming, called a transit, from continual monitoring of a star's brightness, allows astronomers to detect planets outside our solar system with a high degree of certainty.

Technological developments beginning in the 1980s finally made it possible for astronomers to actually detect planets outside our solar system, and the first discoveries of such exoplanets were made in the 1990's by NSF - funded astronomers.

NASA has selected a team to build a new, cutting - edge instrument that will detect planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, by measuring the miniscule «wobbling» of stars.

Not exact matches

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

«Essentially, they are offering a window into the scientific future: Kepler will soon detect an Earth - sized planet outside of the solar system.»

Astronomers have filled in more details in the picture of the Milky Way Galaxy, unveiling five previously unknown planets outside our solar system that were detected via early data from NASA's planet - seeking Kepler spacecraft.

The proposed telescope will be able to detect signatures of life on planets outside our own Solar System, and begin to address the issue of whether life is ubiquitous.»

«Water is detected in a planet outside our solar system.»

CoRoT - 7 b, the first potential rocky planet detected outside the Solar system, may be the remnant core of a Saturn - mass gas giant that had its atmosphere and lower gas metal layers burned off (more)