: originating or existing outside the solar system
extrasolar planets
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Recent Examples on the WebNow, the authors say that, along with the distance from its host star, planetary mass can be another marker to determine if an extrasolar planet can hold onto enough water for life. Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021 Bean will use the telescope to study extrasolar planets, also called exoplanets, which are planets that orbit stars outside Earth’s solar system. Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2021 As the project schedule lengthened, its science objectives expanded, especially as extrasolar planets became an increasing topic of interest in the field. Adam Mann, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2021 As for potential extrasolar Mercury-type planets out there? Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021 Putative extrasolar earths and speculation about microbial fossils on Mars, or even extant life deep within the oceans of one of our solar system’s far-flung frozen moons, remains speculation at this point. Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 28 June 2021 The motivation there is to understand what happens in the mantle of large extrasolar planets.Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2021 At the time, exomoons, or extrasolar moons—those moons that orbit a planet outside of our own solar system, or exoplanets—were something astrophysicists knew about, but had never captured data from. Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2020 These objects have been called extrasolar planets, exosolar planets or exoplanets. Christopher Palma, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2019 See More