Sentences with phrase «study planets outside our solar system»

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«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.»

A new study from the University of Toronto Scarborough suggests the search for life on planets outside our solar system may be more difficult than previously thought.

The Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST, is a proposed mission to study, in part, planets orbiting stars outside the solar system.

Studying the impact rate of meteoroids from outside the Saturnian system helps scientists understand how different planet systems in our solar system formed.

You have been studying exoplanets — planets outside the solar system that orbit Sun - like stars — almost since they were first discovered.

While this might describe a typical late - summer day in many places on Earth, it may also apply to planets outside our solar system, according to a new study by an international team of astrophysicists from the University of Toronto, York University and Queen's University Belfast.

The study of alien worlds is entering its next phase as astronomers amass the best planets outside our Solar System to look for signs of life.

The technology, known as Laser Guide Star adaptive optics, will lead to important advances in the study of planets both inside and outside our solar system, as well as of galaxies, black holes, and how the universe formed and evolved, Ghez said.

At 21 light - years away, the planet is the closest outside of our solar system that can be seen crossing, or transiting, its star — a bonus for astronomers because transiting planets make ideal specimens for detailed studies of their atmospheres.

Find out how Hubble is helping astronomers study the atmospheres of extrasolar planets in our new 25th anniversary science article: Are there habitable planets outside our solar system?

-- to use Earth and Solar System input of geophysical fluid dynamics and thermal evolution of solid planets and the tectonic, glacial and volcanic features that shape their surfaces to model and study a wide range of possible planets and moons inside and outside our own Solar System.

Marcy studies planets orbiting stars outside our own solar system, or exoplanets.