How to Use extrasolar in a Sentence

extrasolar

adjective
  • His work covers a wide range of topics, from Dark Energy to extrasolar planets.
    — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
  • The motivation there is to understand what happens in the mantle of large extrasolar planets.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2021
  • For that reason, these celestial bodies are sometimes also referred to as extrasolar planets.
    — Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • For that reason, these celestial bodies are sometimes also referred to as extrasolar planets.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
  • For that reason, these celestial bodies are sometimes also referred to as extrasolar planets.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • For that reason, these celestial bodies are sometimes also referred to as extrasolar planets.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • For that reason, these celestial bodies are sometimes also referred to as extrasolar planets.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 12 May 2026
  • The fact that there may be as many as a billion such planets in the Milky Way alone has led many people to assume that there must be extrasolar planets that harbor life.
    — Mario Livio, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Currently, these ideas can be tested against the distribution of current planets in our solar system and extrasolar systems.
    — Joshua Sokol, WIRED, 28 May 2018
  • Now, 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
  • Barnes’ simulations predicted more-dire consequences for extrasolar planets near the edge of their habitable zones, though.
    — Lisa Grossman, WIRED, 24 May 2010
  • Since its anomalous composition and age are evidence of its extrasolar origin, astronomers have a unique opportunity in front of them.
    — Jorge Garay, Wired News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The leading suspects have now emerged as a brown dwarf or a massive extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, many times the size of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The crux of the idea is to use future space- and ground-based telescopes, hopefully as soon as next decade, to take high resolution spectra of water vapor in an extrasolar earth’s atmosphere.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Modern searches for extrasolar planets attempt to find them by looking for the characteristic dip in brightness that happens when a planet passes in front of its parent star.
    — Scientific American, 1 July 2013
  • 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
  • Illustrating an extrasolar world for a publication or press release, Cook says, starts and ends with conversations.
    — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2023
  • These objects have been called extrasolar planets, exosolar planets or exoplanets.
    — Christopher Palma, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2019
  • An eccentricity of one, however, is not enough to indicate extrasolar origins.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2019
  • But, more crucially, even with our best telescopes these extrasolar intraterrestrials may never be readily detectable.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
  • The image, packed with 60 million stars, could help scientists hunt for extrasolar planets, exoplanets, in this region known as the galactic bulge.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 June 2026
  • Somewhere along the line, extrasolar planets became exoplanets.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2016
  • The Roman Space Telescope could help answer questions from the nature of dark energy to the possibility of life on extrasolar planets.
    — Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • That could occur early in the existence of unstable extrasolar systems, or on an exomoon with complex orbital dynamics, says Mendonca.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • In contrast, Venus-like planets on the inner edge of extrasolar habitable zones are thought to have what is known as stagnant lid geophysics in which there is no systematic carbon recycling of the planet’s atmosphere.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • While estimates for the amount of guidance in existence or birthed yearly may not be as speculative as extrasolar planetary life, the magnitude remains bathed in the radiation of indifference.
    — Clyde Wayne Crews Jr, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • This suggests that this extrasolar system formed from a cloud of material that was enriched by a supernova, or the death of a giant star called an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star, the researchers said.
    — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 26 June 2018
  • The first convincing evidence of an extrasolar planet or an exoplanet was only confirmed fairly recently, 1995.
    — Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024

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