Sentences with phrase «on planets beyond our solar system»

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NASA scientists on Monday announced the discovery of 219 new objects beyond our solar system that are almost certainly planets.

2013 MacArthur picks include scientists taking on prosthetics, audio preservation and describing planets beyond our 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.

It envisions the great reshuffling as a brief, violent affair that not only put the outer planets where they are today but also created the Kuiper belt of small icy bodies beyond Neptune, gave the planets scores of oddly orbiting moons, and bombarded the solar system with a rain of asteroids and comets so fierce that it would have cooked all but the deepest subterranean life on early Earth.

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).

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.

Calculations by to Weigert and Holman (1997) indicated that the distance from the star where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 0.73 to 0.74 AU — somewhat beyond the orbital distance of Venus in the Solar System — with an orbital period under an Earth year using calculations based on Hart (1979).

On 6 October 1995, astronomers started a revolution with the discovery of 51 Pegasi b — the first planet found orbiting a Sun - like star beyond our solar system.

The knowledge and tools NASA has developed to study life on Earth will be a great asset to the study of planets beyond our solar system.

On June 11, 2008, On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted at the meeting of its Executive Committee to establish bright «dwarf planets beyond the orbit of Neptune as a new class of substellar objects in the Solar System called «plutoids» (IAU press release).

-- to explore the Solar System beyond Mars to understand how giant planets and their moons form and evolve, to search for habitable environments on and within moons (like Enceladus, Europa and Titan), and to examine the farthest bodies in the solar system for clues to the early history of the solar sySolar System beyond Mars to understand how giant planets and their moons form and evolve, to search for habitable environments on and within moons (like Enceladus, Europa and Titan), and to examine the farthest bodies in the solar system for clues to the early history of the solar sSystem beyond Mars to understand how giant planets and their moons form and evolve, to search for habitable environments on and within moons (like Enceladus, Europa and Titan), and to examine the farthest bodies in the solar system for clues to the early history of the solar sysolar system for clues to the early history of the solar ssystem for clues to the early history of the solar sysolar systemsystem.

Astrophysicst Chuanfei Dong of PPPL and Princeton University has led collaborative research that casts doubt about the chances of life on planets that orbit stars beyond the solar system.

Within our own solar system, HDST would provide images of weather and surfaces on the outer planets and their moons far beyond today's capabilities.

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.

From the smallest microbe to the largest dinosaurs and from the tiniest spore to the biggest giant sequoia, biological research continues to uncover weird and wonderful secrets of the creatures with whom we share the planet with — and could soon extend to the study of life on bodies in the solar system beyond our home.

In addition, Ceres» light spectrum suggests that it may have ammonium - rich clay at the surface, which would fit the expected ammonia - rich composition of large, differentiated substellar objects in the outer Solar System, including the «plutoids» defined on June 11, 2008 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as a new class of bright «dwarf planets beyond the orbit of Neptune (IAU press release).

Cordes thinks that these creatures could be like life on planets in our solar system or even beyond.