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».
Not exact matches
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.
«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.»
Van de Kamp pointed out that although Barnard's star and its companion are the third known «
solar system»
outside our own, they constitute the first such pair in
which the companion is small enough to be classified confidently as a planet.»
All of
which means that Proxima b is far more than the nearest neighboring planet
outside our
solar system.
Fascinating new light could be shed on the complex atmospheres of planets
which orbit stars
outside our own
solar system, thanks to pioneering new research.
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.
Outside of our
solar system, auroras,
which indicate the presence of a magnetosphere, have been spotted on brown dwarfs — objects that are bigger than planets but smaller than stars.
A team of researchers believed those rays,
which come from
outside our
solar system, may have caused the Apollo astronauts» circulatory
systems to function incorrectly.
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.
Such information may be used to measure the planet's mass,
which could make Kepler 78b the first Earth - sized planet
outside our own
solar system whose mass is known.
If you look at exoplanets (ie those
outside our
solar system), you see bizarre things: planets of fiery magma,
which resemble hell; Planets of ice and colder than the Arctic; Planets that consist only of water or pure iron.
Artist's illustration of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS),
which will hunt for exoplanets orbiting the brightest stars just
outside our
solar system.
In what is being hailed as «a significant step on the path towards the detection of life
outside our
Solar System,» astronomers have detected an atmosphere around the exoplanet GJ 1132b,
which makes it the most Earth - like world around
which such a layer of gasses has ever been found.
The planet,
which is about 1.6 times the size of Earth, is also the nearest confirmed rocky planet
outside our
solar system.
The planet, dubbed WASP - 18b, has a mass about 10 times that of Jupiter and completes one orbit around its star WASP - 18 in less than 23 hours,
which places the planet in the «hot Jupiter» category of exoplanets, or planets that are located
outside our
solar system.
Researchers working with data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found the strongest evidence to date for the existence of a stratosphere — the layer of an atmosphere in
which temperature increases with altitude — on an exoplanet (a planet
outside of the
Solar System).
These planets
outside our
solar system —
which are known as exoplanets — are companions to stars, swimming in their own sea of darkness.
Of the 209 extrasolar planets (those
outside the
solar system) discovered as of November 2006, most have masses
which are about the same as, or larger than, Jupiter.
In what is being hailed as «a significant step on the path towards the detection of life
outside our
Solar System,» astronomers have detected an atmosphere around the exoplanet GJ 1132b,
which makes it the most Earth - like world around
which...
Exocomet is a comet
which exists
outside the Earth's
solar system that orbits stars other than the sun and can also be found in interstellar comets.
This atmospheric scientist works at the SETI Institute,
which searches for life
outside our
solar system.
An exoplanet is a planet
which orbits a star
outside our
solar system.
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solar power, an 80 - litre water tank, gas tank for cooking, and piping for the rainwater harvesting
system that collects water in the 1000 - litre tanks
outside and waters the exterior living wall,
which shades and cools the structure.
Outside, Both has installed
solar panels on the roof,
which provide power for the low - energy appliances like the refrigerator, home theater
system and Both's mobile wifi network, crucial for any digital nomad.
Simple: If we were planning a mission
outside the
solar system we'd want lots of CO2 to grow healthy plants for our journey to the stars — e.g., growers keep CO2 levels at 1,000 to 2,000 ppm in Earthly greenhouses,
which is about the level you'd find in a lecture hall full of students and pretty much what has been normal over most of Earth's 550 million year history.