Sentences with phrase «other planets outside our solar system»

«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.»

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

Not exact matches

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

The new planet haul is the biggest yet, bringing the number of confirmed worlds outside our solar system over 3200 - and edges us closer to knowing how many stars host other Earths

In the past two decades more than 1,800 extrasolar planets (or exoplanets) have been discovered outside our solar system orbiting around other stars.

This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around an Earth - like planet other than Earth itself, and thus is a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System.

These doughnut - shaped objects might even explain the formation of other terrestrial planets like Mars, Venus, and many more outside our solar system.

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.

Boston University astronomer Philip Muirhead said that if planets outside the solar system, or exoplanets, were houses, GJ1132b «is not the house right next to yours, but it's on the other side of the block,» according to USA Today.

Extrasolar planet, also called exoplanet, any planetary body that is outside the solar system and that usually orbits a star other than the Sun.

Now add in all other sources, the planets, sun, and those objects outside our solar system.