Sentences with phrase «many planets outside our solar system»

Nicknamed «the planet hunter,» the $ 337 million TESS is a follow - up to NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which spent the last eight years searching the skies for as many planets outside our solar system as possible.

Astronomers have discovered an Earth - sized planet outside our solar system which is expected to be temperate and could be a «comfortable abode for possible life».

Created by chance, they have no place in the normal and orthodox evolution of astral matter; with the exasperating result that we know nothing for certain about the existence or frequency of occurrence of planets outside the solar system.

The discovery of more than 330 planets outside our solar system in recent...

For thousands of years there was no evidence that planets outside the solar system existed, but that did not mean they did not.

Although crude, the weather maps may be the first to identify clouds on a planet outside the solar system.

An analysis of planets outside the solar system suggests that most hot, rocky exoplanets started out more like gassy Neptunes.

NASA is stepping up its search for planets outside our solar system.

«We can use Mars, a planet that we know a lot about, as a laboratory for studying rocky planets outside our solar system, which we don't know much about yet.»

For the first time, water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere of a Neptune - sized planet outside the solar system.

In January Kepler astronomers announced the discovery of the first definitively rocky planet outside our solar system, Kepler - 10 b.

Kepler - 10b The smallest known planet outside our solar system, it is just 1.4 times as wide as Earth and is as dense as solid iron.

Researchers from Bern have developed a method to simplify the search for Earth - like planets: By using new theoretical models they rule out the possibility of Earth - like conditions, and therefore life, on certain planets outside our solar system — and limit their search by doing so.

Currently extensive observational programs are being developed all over the world, with the aim to detect planets outside our solar system that are able to accommodate life — a sheer impossible task.

«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.»

Many planets outside the solar system are even more massive than Jupiter, and they orbit their Sun - like stars at an Earth - like distance, but these faraway super-Jupiters are effectively giant gas balls that can not support life because they lack solid surfaces.

A new study from the University of Toronto Scarborough suggests the search for life on planets outside our solar system may be more difficult than previously thought.

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

Astronomers have gotten the most detailed look yet at the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system.

All of which means that Proxima b is far more than the nearest neighboring planet outside our solar system.

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.

Those theories got a jolt 10 years ago, when astronomers first began discovering planets outside our solar system orbiting other stars.

Using infrared images recorded by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have created the first weather map of a planet 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.

Since the discovery of planets outside our solar system in the 1990s, astronomers have tallied more than 400 extrasolar worlds, many unlike anything known before.

Closer to home, the big telescopes have an equally intriguing assignment: to see planets outside our solar system.

Using recently discovered planets outside our solar system (exoplanets) as examples, they investigated the potential for these planets to host life.

Almost 1,000 planets outside our solar system have been identified by astronomers.

The first planets outside the solar system were discovered 25 years ago — not around a normal star like our Sun, but instead orbiting a tiny, super-dense «neutron star».

Morgan O'Neill, the paper's lead author and a former PhD student in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), says the team's model may eventually be used to gauge atmospheric conditions on planets outside the solar system.

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 configuration.

Thanks to this pioneering research, astrophysicists can now begin to explore how weather systems on other planets outside our solar system change over time.

You have been studying exoplanets — planets outside the solar system that orbit Sun - like stars — almost since they were first discovered.

This discovery marks a significant increase in the number of known small - sized planets more akin to Earth than previously identified exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system.

Since the discovery of the first planets outside our solar system roughly two decades ago, verification has been a laborious planet - by - planet process.

While this might describe a typical late - summer day in many places on Earth, it may also apply to planets outside our solar system, according to a new study by an international team of astrophysicists from the University of Toronto, York University and Queen's University Belfast.

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.

Extrasolar planets are extremely hot right now — some researchers are predicting it's only a matter of time until we discover Earth - size planets outside the solar system — and Scientific American has elaborate coverage of these developments.

Astronomers have filled in more details in the picture of the Milky Way Galaxy, unveiling five previously unknown planets outside our solar system that were detected via early data from NASA's planet - seeking Kepler spacecraft.

When Marcy first decided to look for planets outside the solar system, the powers that be were as skeptical as they have always been.

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.

The study of alien worlds is entering its next phase as astronomers amass the best planets outside our Solar System to look for signs of life.

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.

Observing this periodic dimming, called a transit, from continual monitoring of a star's brightness, allows astronomers to detect planets outside our solar system with a high degree of certainty.

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).

Leslie Sage, an authority on exoplanets (planets outside our Solar System), was perplexed when he learned about hot Jupiters — Jupiter - size planets orbiting so close to their stars that they complete an orbit every few days.

The next challenge is to image smaller planets in the «habitable» zone around stars where possible life - bearing Earth - like planets outside the solar system could reside.

«When I started teaching at UNLV in 1993, we didn't know of any planets outside our solar system,» he recalled.

Data from three of NASA's space telescopes have helped astronomers discover clear skies and water vapor on a gaseous planet outside our solar system.

The planet, which is about 1.6 times the size of Earth, is also the nearest confirmed rocky planet outside our solar system.