Sentences with phrase «detects alien planets»
Kepler detects alien planets using what's called the «transit method.»
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The subsequent fallout and nuclear winter would turn the planet's atmosphere hazy, which we could detect, but some planets are very cloudy anyway so this wouldn't be a definitive sign of alien apocalypse.
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.
A moon orbiting a distant planet around an alien world may have been detected, marking the first known exomoon.
Spinning stars slow as they grow older, and this rotational rate could be key to detecting life on planets around alien stars.
«Yet methane almost certainly would not have been detected by an alien civilization looking at our planet a billion years ago — despite the likelihood of its biological production over most of Earth history.»
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.