Sentences with phrase «find planets outside our solar system»

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is an observatory in space dedicated to finding planets outside our solar system, particularly alien planets that are around the same size as Earth in the «habitable» regions of their parent star.

Not exact matches

Using powerful telescopes, they can spot planets far outside of the reach of our solar system when they cross in front of their sun — it's how we recently found a triad of planets around a red sun 40 light - years away.

The newly discovered exoplanets, or planets outside of the earth's solar system, were found after researchers applied the same AI techniques that help computers recognize images like cats in photos to data gathered from the Kepler space telescope.

NASA: Three planets found are some of best candidates so far for habitable worlds outside our solar system.

Breaking News NASA: Three planets found are some of best candidates so far for habitable worlds outside our solar system.

None of the planets yet found outside our solar system score particularly well.

«If we understand how early Mars operated, it could tell us something about the potential for finding life on other planets outside the solar system.»

Some astronomers are questioning the existence of what might be the most Earth - like planet yet found outside the solar system, based on a reexamination of archival data.

SEATTLE — Astronomers have found so many planets outside our solar system that new ones must break records to get noticed.

Fridlund helped design COROT (for convection, rotation, and planetary transits), ESA's early entry in the race to find rocky, Earth - like planets outside our solar system.

Researchers expect to find water on many planets outside the solar system, called exoplanets, including Jupiter - size gas giants such as HD 189733 b and HD 209458 b, which orbits a different star.

More than 350 researchers from around the globe gathered at the Extreme Solar Systems (ESS) II conference in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo., to share their findings on these newfound exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, of every size and configuraSolar Systems (ESS) II conference in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo., to share their findings on these newfound exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, of every size and configurasolar system, of every size and configuration.

This artist's rendition shows one possible appearance for the planet HD 219134b, the nearest rocky exoplanet found to date outside our solar system.

Instead Terebey, an astronomer at the Extrasolar Research Corporation in Pasadena, found what might be the first planet ever directly observed outside our solar system.

New work led by Carnegie's Jacqueline Faherty surveyed various properties of 152 suspected young brown dwarfs in order to categorize their diversity and found that atmospheric properties may be behind much of their differences, a discovery that may apply to planets outside the solar system as well.

Scientists have long speculated that Mars is the most likely place in the solar system to find life outside our cozy planet.

The Kepler 11 system is unique for several reasons: For starters, it is among the largest collections of worlds known outside our own solar system, and all six of the planets Kepler has found there are aligned so that their orbits carry them across the face of their host star from Kepler's vantage point.

While it is unlikely that astronomers will continue to find larger objects in the belt, Brown says that the region outside the belt, in the coldest hinterland of the solar system, could very well hold planet - size rocks.

The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be — a discovery that challenges scientists» understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside our own.

Extrasolar planets (planets outside our solar system) were found in 1995 for the first time, and since then many planets have been found around stars other than the Sun.

Hence, astrobiologists seeking signs of life on planets outside the Solar System may want to look for colors reflected by planetary vegetation that is colored differently than the green wavelengths found on Earth (NASA / GSFC press release; Spitzer news release; Nancy Y. Klang, Scientific American, April 2008; Astrobiology; Kiang et al, 2007a; and Kiang et al, 2007b).

So many planets have been found outside our solar system that there appear to be about as many planets as there are stars.

(McGill University) The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be — a discovery that challenges scientists» understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside our own.

Scientists have discovered a new planet near in size to Earth, and because of its resemblance and close proximity, it's «arguably the most important planet ever found outside the solar system,» the University of Maryland's Drake Deming wrote in a commentary supplementary to a scientific report about the discovery, USA Today reported Wednesday.

The mission is NASA's most ambitious attempt to find life in our solar system outside planet Earth.

NASA has yet to find a habitable exoplanet, a planet where humans could live outside the solar system, but it has dedicated space telescopes probing the universe looking for suitable worlds.

From 1963 — 2000, claims were made that planets had been found outside the solar system.

Find out how Hubble is helping astronomers study the atmospheres of extrasolar planets in our new 25th anniversary science article: Are there habitable planets outside our solar system?

Researchers working with data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found the strongest evidence to date for the existence of a stratosphere — the layer of an atmosphere in which temperature increases with altitude — on an exoplanet (a planet outside of the Solar System).