Sentences with phrase «first known exoplanets»

The first known exoplanets were huge and gassy.

Not exact matches

By the time Kepler reports its first results, the exoplanet landscape will no doubt have changed yet again.

Until then, all the known exoplanets (planets circling other stars) were big and gaseous, but this one is probably made of rocky materials — the first world like ours found in an alien solar system.

By next spring, the planet - hunting space telescope known as Kepler — rejected by NASA three times but then approved after those initial detections of exoplanets in the 1990s — will most likely report the discovery of the first known Earth - like planet in an Earth - like orbit.

That's why, ever since astronomers confirmed the first planet outside of our solar system in 1995, they have been looking for signs of water on the 200 - plus exoplanets now known.

Biomarker found in space complicates search for life on exoplanets 02 October 2017 A molecule once thought to be a useful marker for life as we know it has been discovered around a young star and at a comet for the first time, suggesting these ingredients are inherited during the planet - forming phase.

This artist's concept shows Kepler - 421b, the first known Uranus - sized transiting exoplanet with the longest known year, circling its star once every 704 days.

Since Omega Centauri is thought to be Kapteyn's star place of origin, scientists estimate that its planets must be approximately 11.5 to 12 billion years old, thus making Kapteyn b not only the oldest known possibly habitable exoplanet to date, but, along with Kapteyn c, the first that might have originated from another galaxy, outside of the Milky Way.

The high precision of the Kepler space telescope has allowed us to detect planets that are the size of Earth and somewhat smaller, but no previous planets have been found that ar... ▽ More Since the discovery of the first exoplanet we have known that other planetary systems can look quite unlike our own.

Hubble observations made while it passed behind its primary star last December, reveal the hot Jupiter - like planet known as HD 189733b is a deep cobalt blue in color, marking the first time that the color of an exoplanet has been measured.

The University of Exeter said today (May 15, 2017) that its researchers have taken their first, tentative steps to explore the potential climate of the nearest known exoplanet, Proxima b. We've known about this planet for less than a year, since August, 2016..

teamed up with Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS), the University of Reykjavík, University of Geneva and Michel Mayor — winner of 2017 Wolf Prize for Physics and discoverer of the first exoplanet known to man.