Sentences with phrase «for planets beyond our solar system»

Bruce Dorminey is a science journalist and author of «Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets beyond the Solar System.»

«Weather forecasts made for planets beyond our solar system.»

The hunt for planets beyond the solar system went up a gear today, as NASA launched its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Kepler lead scientist William Borucki, with NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, said he's not surprised by the finding of the European team, which uses a light - splitting spectrograph called HARPS on a telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile to look for planets beyond the solar system.

So far, Kepler, a NASA orbiting telescope that searches for planets beyond our solar system, has detected over 1,200 exoplanets.

If this finding is correct, that would mean the Milky Way is home to tens of billions of planets in habitable zones, concludes a team of scientists using an Earth - based telescope to look for planets beyond the solar system.

«What's even more fascinating is that, because this worked for the Earth and the moon, it must also work for planets beyond our solar system,» Greenwood said in a statement.

Not exact matches

Even so, the quest for finding truly habitable — maybe even inhabited — planets beyond the solar system may require more ambitious, next - generation observatories.

With planets orbiting M dwarfs quickly becoming the darlings in the search for life beyond our solar system, a new generation of observatories are poised to discover hundreds of worlds around these stars.

Participating in the conversation were Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education; Joan Steitz, a molecular biophysicist at Yale University who studies RNA; Shirley Malcom, head of the directorate for education and human resources at AAAS; and Sara Seager, a planetary scientist and physicist at MIT who studies the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system.

Astronomers will be searching for direct evidence of a ninth planet in the far reaches of the solar system; its existence was inferred this year from its gravitational effects on icy objects beyond Pluto.

The presence of water in liquid form still guides our searches for extraterrestrial life: on Mars, on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter or on extrasolar planets (beyond our Solar System).

Yet the claim is the strongest yet in the search for a «Planet X,» a quest to extend the solar system beyond Neptune that has been plagued by far - fetched claims.

Some of these planets, all located far beyond Earth's solar system, could contain vast deposits of graphite or diamonds, and their apparent abundance prompts new questions about the implications of carbon - intense environments for climate, plate tectonics, and other geological processes, as well as for life.

The belt, which consists of antiprotons trapped by Earth's magnetic field several hundred kilometers above the planet's surface, may ultimately become a key source of fuel for missions venturing beyond the solar system.

The discovery, reported Wednesday in the journal Nature, puts the planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST - 1 at the top of astronomers» list of places to look for life beyond the solar system.

When scientists look for extraterrestrial life, they typically turn their focus upwards, to planets like Mars, moons like Enceladus and exoplanets beyond our own solar system.

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The agency currently has spacecraft speeding toward Jupiter and Pluto and roving on Mars, and is searching for planets that could potentially harbor life beyond our solar system.

A rogue planet moving through the solar system would be pretty obvious to astronomers, who can detect planets far beyond our home solar system by looking for the wobbles their passage causes in the stars they orbit.

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and to date has offered scientists an assortment of more than 4,000 candidate planets for further study — the 1,000 th of which was recently verified.