Sentences with phrase «detected on an alien planet»

The findings were headed by Bruce Macintosh, a professor of physics at Stanford University, and show the new planet, 51 Eridani b, is one million times fainter than its parent star and shows the strongest methane signature ever detected on an alien planet, which should yield additional clues as to how the planet formed.

Not exact matches

WE CA N'T directly detect plants or animals, much less microbes, on alien worlds, but their effects on a planet's atmosphere may be easier to spot.

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