Sentences with phrase «distant alien planets»

If selected for development, the spacecraft will investigate at least 500 exoplanet atmospheres, providing detailed information about climate processes on distant alien planets.

Scheduled for launch in early 2017, the roughly $ 1 - million mission could pave the way for a new class of instrument that can peer through the sun's glare or at distant alien planets, without requiring a massive single scope.

Not exact matches

ANTI-GLARE GOGGLES FOR PLANET HUNTERS The search for alien life requires analyzing distant planets» light to determine the makeup of their atmospheres.

The more distant planets and their squadrons of satellites remained as tantalising dots of light even with a telescope, allowing plenty of scope for imagination about conditions on those alien worlds.

Barring the appearance of flying saucers, there are two broad possibilities: either we have a close encounter with our neighbours by visiting the planets and moons next door; or we make an interstellar phone call to creatures inhabiting much more distant planets that circle alien suns.

Most people would probably agree that astronomy is an inspiring subject, blowing our minds with astonishing facts about exploding stars, extrasolar planets and supermassive black holes while beguiling our eyes with awesome vistas of alien worlds and distant galaxies.

A moon orbiting a distant planet around an alien world may have been detected, marking the first known exomoon.

Autonomous telescope joins hunt for alien planets and has already found new planets around distant stars.

A new crew (Katherine Waterston, James Franco, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Amy Seimetz, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Nathaniel Dean, Alexander England, and Benjamin Rigby) with plans to colonize a distant planet makes a fateful stop at an uncharted paradise only to run into the least friendly aliens in movie history.

Antal's main strength is his versatility, from an astonishingly durable slasher like Vacancy to Armored, an urban western / neo-noir revolving around a stolen armored car, to Predators, a sci - fi actioner about a group of human killers and soldiers that are hunted for sport by the titular aliens on a distant planet.

Super Stardust Ultra VR throws gamers into the distant future as they become a star fighter pilot in order to defend their planet from an alien invasion.

Built around a mysterious, ancient alien artifact that can transport people instantly between distant planets (that would be the titular Stargate), the flick dabbles in Egyptian mythology; but is mostly an excuse for a rollicking sci - fi adventure starring Kurt Russell and James Spader at their most fun.

Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth from a distant planet on a mission to take water back to his home planet in the midst of a catastrophic drought.

Set many years before Alien — though it actually isn't a direct prequel (as Sir Ridley repeatedly stated)-- Prometheus finds an anthropologist, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace), and her boyfriend Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall - Green) ostensibly leading a scientific expedition to the moon of a distant planet in hopes that they will find the aliens who created humanity.

Director: James Cameron Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton The story: The only survivor of an alien massacre finds herself on a distant planet and, once again, knee - deep in ravenous aliens.

A court martial sends a veteran soldier to a distant planet, where he is to destroy the remains of an alien race.

Description: Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams and a distinguished cast (including Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy, and Veronica Cartwright) and must fight for survival as the population of San Francisco is systematically cloned by alien «pods» from a distant, dying planet.

It's usually some alien race from some distant galaxy but in Twentieth Century Fox's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes it is home - grown apes.

Synopsis: A court martial sends a veteran soldier to a distant planet, where he has to destroy the remains of an alien race.

Soon everyone's problems are literally blown up when a deadly swarm of alien ships attacks the Enterprise during a routine dispatch, leaving the survivors stranded on a distant planet while others are held prisoner by the leader of the violent pack, a warlord named Krall (a fierce Idris Elba) who's searching for an artifact that is the missing puzzle piece he needs to finish building — what else?

In A Darkling Sea, the setting is vastly different — under the water of a distant planet — but Cambias spins an enthralling tale of (accidental) first contact with an alien species and all the complications that arise from it.

So alien in appearance is the terrain in the Timanfaya National Park, you may feel as if you've just stepped onto some distant planet as opposed to an island in the Atlantic.

In the Universe of NekoBuro, on a distant planet, there is a story of a fantastic electric wave life featuring the Square Cats, a whimsical group of aliens.

Forma.8 Publisher / Developer: Mixed Bag Scheduled Launch: Fall 2015 In a distant future, the small exploration probe Forma.8 is stranded alone on the surface of an alien planet.

When a friendly alien from a distant planet - the blob - crashes on Earth, he befriends a local human - the boy - to aid him in saving his homeworld from the evil emperor.

Players will investigate a massive, interconnected alien world as they solve the mystery of a strange disappearance on a distant mining planet and experience a story of ancient riddles and modern - day hubris.

Expected to be one of the early PSVR highlights, Farpoint has finally reemerged and will ship next week, letting you roam a distant planet as you blast startling aliens to bits while finding lost shipmates.

Earth has been destroyed by aliens, the spaceship that made it out of harm's way has crash - landed on a distant planet and it's your job to sort out this mess.

LA - based artist Kathryn Andrews, in conjunction with composer Scott Benzel, will present a new performance in which performers summon alien beings from distant planets.