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.