How to Use exoplanet in a Sentence

exoplanet

noun
  • The first involves the amount of light blocked while the exoplanet orbits its host star.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2018
  • Or the idea that our sun is just another star, and that all those stars have exoplanets around them.
    — Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2017
  • But a look at exoplanets suggests that this isn't an inevitable fate.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This is the chief lesson of two decades of studying exoplanets.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • An exoplanet is one that orbits around a star other than our Sun.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • These worlds illustrate both how far exoplanet science has come and how much there still is to learn.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
  • What turned out to be hard for Venus will only be harder for exoplanets many light-years away.
    — Elise Cutts, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2024
  • That means wind speeds could be used to infer the strength of these exoplanets' magnetic fields.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 June 2026
  • Most of the exoplanets will be orbiting stars called red dwarfs, much smaller and cooler than the sun.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
  • But this isn’t how many exoplanets are discovered.
    — Eric MacK, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • This is not the first time that this exoplanet demonstrated — if not signs of life, then at least precursors for it.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Kepler-16b was the first exoplanet found to circle a double star.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The first exoplanet discovered still holds the record for being the least massive.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In some cases, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet could be brighter than its host star in the infrared part of the spectrum.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Venus’s lessons for exoplanets.
    — Big Think, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Finding more exoplanets is a key step in the search for a world that could potentially support life.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 12 May 2026
  • It is now thought to be the exoplanet with the best chance for liquid water on its surface, and so might even be habitable.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 20 July 2024
  • Today, the exoplanet count stands at more than 6,000 and is growing all the time.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The third theme calls for either a probe of the Milky Way or an exoplanet hunting telescope.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 11 June 2021
  • The researchers also discovered that the exoplanet’s poles are cooler than the rest of it.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The most Earth-size exoplanet found so far may be Kepler-1649c.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2021
  • These exoplanets, often rich in atmospheric hazes, are the most abundant species of world known at present.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The goal is to catch exoplanets slightly dimming their parent stars' brightness as the little worlds pass across the face of these stars.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This exoplanet has a strange weather system with high winds and cloud coverage only on one side of the planet.
    — Regina G. Barber, NPR, 29 May 2026
  • The stakes are high for exoplanets, too, where a small push in atmosphere, clouds, or volcanism could lock worlds into hellish states.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But dense cloud coverage is now something astronomers might look for on distant exoplanets.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • That means astronomers don't need to know the exact conditions around an infant star to assess the mass of its exoplanets.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 June 2026
  • Many telescopes, in space and on the ground, are staring at the heavens in search of exoplanets silhouetted against the bright faces of their stars.
    — Simon J. Lock, Scientific American, 2 July 2019
  • The comet is thought to have been ejected from a giant exoplanet and traversed the Milky Way for billions of years.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Together, the two types of planet are the most common classes of world discovered by exoplanet hunters so far.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2026

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