Sentences with phrase «rocky planet 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.»
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In January Kepler astronomers announced the discovery of the first definitively rocky planet outside our solar system, Kepler - 10 b.
The planet, which is about 1.6 times the size of Earth, is also the nearest confirmed rocky planet outside our solar system.
Not exact matches
An analysis of planets outside the solar system suggests that most hot, rocky exoplanets started out more like gassy Neptunes.
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.
This artist's rendition shows one possible appearance for the planet HD 219134b, the nearest rocky exoplanet found to date outside our solar system.
CoRoT - 7 b, the first potential rocky planet detected outside the Solar system, may be the remnant core of a Saturn - mass gas giant that had its atmosphere and lower gas metal layers burned off (more)