exoplanet
noun
exo·plan·et
| \ ˈek-sō-ˌpla-nət
, ˌek-sō-ˈpla-\
, ˌek-sō-ˈpla-\
Definition of exoplanet
: a planet orbiting a star that is not our sun
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They were first discovered in June as part of the CARMENES search for exoplanets, according to a press release. — Fox News, "'Earth-like exoplanets' 12.5 light-years away could have liquid water and be home to life, study suggests," 8 Aug. 2019 With the Kepler mission over, NASA’s exoplanet efforts have now shifted to a new telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which was launched in 2018. — Jonathan O'callaghan, Scientific American, "One Search to (Almost) Rule Them All: Hundreds of Hidden Planets Found in Kepler Data," 2 Aug. 2019 Launched in 2018, TESS is NASA's latest satellite to help feed the recent exoplanet boom. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "NASA Exoplanet Hunter Finds 'Hot Earth'," 2 Aug. 2019 An artist's concept image of the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "TESS finds potentially habitable super-Earth 31 light-years away," 1 Aug. 2019 The findings, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, were presented Wednesday at an exoplanet conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. — Denise Chow, NBC News, "Potentially habitable 'super-Earth' discovered just 31 light-years away," 31 July 2019 In many exoplanet systems, as in our own backyard, astronomers are finding that smaller worlds tend to orbit close to their host stars, and bigger planets are more distant. — Quanta Magazine, "As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern," 16 May 2019 Launched in 2018, TESS has been tasked with picking up the exoplanet baton and diving deeper into what these distant worlds look like, especially rocky planets that orbit small nearby stars. — Shannon Stirone, National Geographic, "Other 'Earths' are out there. Here are the best places to look.," 26 Mar. 2019 The observatory — which is responsible for about 70 percent of all exoplanet discoveries to date — orbits the sun and is millions of miles from Earth. — Mike Wall, Space.com, "NASA's Kepler Planet-Hunting Space Telescope Wakes Up Again," 13 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'exoplanet.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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