Sentences with phrase «promising planet around another star»

Not exact matches

Its discovery proved that the Kepler spacecraft, which was launched in March 2009, could indeed do what its designers had boldly promised: find small, Earth - size planets around distant stars, a task that once seemed so difficult as to border on the absurd.

We're looking at extrasolar planets [ones around other stars], but there are also a bunch of places in our solar system that look promising — the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and back again to Mars.