Sentences with phrase «detected outside the solar system»

If the research holds up, it will be the first time one of the amino acids so essential to life on Earth has been detected outside the solar system.

Any of those would be the most Earth - like world ever detected outside the 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)

Not exact matches

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

A pair of neutrinos detected in Antarctica may be the first of these ghostly particles seen coming from outside the solar system since 1987.

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

Among the findings is strong evidence for the existence of clouds of water or water ice, the first such clouds detected outside of our solar system.

Now, graduate students at the University of Washington have found a way to detect volcanic activity in the atmospheres of exoplanets, or those outside our solar system, when they transit, or pass in front of their host stars.

Talk with an expert about the latest efforts to detect signals from beings outside our solar system

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos — nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball.

At the same time, the spacecraft also detected a corresponding uptick in galactic cosmic rays, ultrafast particles that come from outside 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.

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.

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.»

In what is being hailed as «a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System,» astronomers have detected an atmosphere around the exoplanet GJ 1132b, which makes it the most Earth - like world around which such a layer of gasses has ever been found.

In the classic 1973 Arthur C. Clarke science fiction novel «Rendezvous With Rama,» a mysterious object is detected outside the orbit of Jupiter as it rapidly approaches the inner solar system.

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.

In what is being hailed as «a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System,» astronomers have detected an atmosphere around the exoplanet GJ 1132b, which makes it the most Earth - like world around which...

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

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.

A massive telescope buried in the Antarctic ice has detected 28 record - breaking, extremely high - energy neutrinos — elementary particles that likely originate outside our solar system.