Sentences with phrase «hundreds of nearby planets»

Regardless, if TESS can indeed locate hundreds of nearby planets, astronomers will have their hands full for the foreseeable future — finding out what those planets are like and what kinds of habitats they might support and, just maybe, flinging some future probe toward one enticing - looking world.

Not exact matches

Newborn planets in other solar systems endure «catastrophic» collisions for hundreds of millions of years, according to a new astronomical survey of nearby stars.
APF and Keck Observatory traced out the planets» orbits over many years using the Doppler technique that has successfully found hundreds of mostly larger planets orbiting nearby stars.
Its ultimate purpose is to learn if some sort of life exists on planets circling nearby stars; Hawking and other scientists postulate that many of the hundreds of newly discovered exoplanets must harbor some forms of life.
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