Sentences with phrase «small rocky planets»

A more appropriate way to put this might be that life will emerge on small rocky planets with a probability of 1 per cent.

Suppose 1 per cent of these have small rocky planets orbiting them and suppose that 1 per cent of such planets are habitable.

It speculates that 1 per cent of small rocky planets are «habitable» and continues as if life has inevitably emerged on them.

The Kepler 90 solar system is like a cinched - up version of our own: Small rocky planets hug the star most tightly, while larger planets hang back.

The basic architecture of our solar system, where things go in circles, and there are small rocky planets close to the sun and big massive gas giants far from the sun, is certainly not the only architecture.

In the Solar System, small rocky planets such as the Earth orbit near the Sun, whereas gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are found much further out.

Stars A and B were selected as two of the top 100 target stars for NASA's indefinitely postponed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) to directly image small rocky planets in Earth - type habitable orbits.

Kepler is capable of detecting the ~ 0.01 % decrease caused by small rocky planets and potentially Earth - like planets.

The main objective of the mission is to find smaller rocky planets, like Earth, orbiting closer stars in the solar neighborhood.

They hope it will open up the world of super-Earths, relatively unfamiliar objects between the size of small rocky planets and gas giants, of which we have no examples in our solar system.

Adrift on one small rocky planet that orbits one ordinary star out of a trillion trillion stars in the observable universe, each one of us is locked inside a singular, self - aware speck of flesh, embedded in a web of biological evolution that sprawls across the eons.

The results are beginning to show that small rocky planets are the most common of all planet types in the catalog, making up as much as 25 %.

The spacecraft is expected to scan the sky to look for both small rocky planets and large gas giants, as well as everything in between, around some 200,000 stars within about 300 light - years from Earth.

We can rule out gas giants at Barnard's Star thanks to continuing Doppler monitoring, but we can't yet rule out small rocky planets of the kind we are now turning up around other M - dwarfs in data from the Kepler mission.

Although also a super-Earth class planet, Kepler - 10b has only 1.4 times Earth's radius and has been determined to be one of the smallest rocky planets detected thus far.

Sen — One of the overarching goals of extrasolar planet detection is to find out if other planetary systems look like our own Solar System, complete with small rocky planets, large gas giant planets, and hundreds of small moons.