How to Use outer planet in a Sentence

outer planet

noun
  • The new rocket may play some role in science missions to the outer planets, too.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Uranus, though both of those outer planets are impossible to see with the naked eye.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • This is when the outer planet will be at its most luminous, making for a brilliant night sky view.
    — Megan Marples, CNN, 30 July 2021
  • More details on the outer planets' moons will require space missions to get a closer look.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2025
  • When studying the outer planets of our solar system, there’s no solid ground.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The planets on the other side of the asteroid belt are referred to as the outer planets.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 4 July 2021
  • Two outer planets go retrograde in your house of home and family at the end of April.
    — Randon Rosenbohm, Allure, 31 Mar. 2019
  • As the dreamy outer planet slows down to a halt on the day of the solstice, the vibe will be lucid and introspective.
    — Randon Rosenbohm, Allure, 29 May 2019
  • Rather the spacecraft were just following the paths that would give scientists the best views of the outer planets.
    — Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
  • And the latest report, released today, has put this outer planet front and center.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The outer planets, Uranus and Neptune, are not visible to the naked eye.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Neptune, the eighth and most distant planet from the sun, stands out among the outer planets in our solar system for its odd group of moons.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 20 May 2026
  • In our Solar System, some of it was captured by the outer planets before it was lost.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
  • That’s because Venus is between Earth and the sun, unlike the outer planet Jupiter.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Their launch was timed to take advantage of an alignment of the outer planets that occurs once every 176 years.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 24 Nov. 2025
  • But fortunately, the outer planets might be safe from this barrage of high-energy space weather.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 30 Dec. 2017
  • When in opposition, outer planets are closest to Earth.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The first space mission to orbit an outer planet from pole to pole, Juno gets to with a few thousand miles of Jupiter’s cloud-tops at the poles.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 25 May 2022
  • Many members of the Voyager expedition, which was nearing the end of its decade-long tour of the outer planets, joined the mission.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Though neither is visible to the naked eye, the distant outer planets Uranus and Neptune will also be in the sky.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The best time to observe any outer planet is a month either side of its opposition, when Earth travels between the planet and the sun.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Each year, the Hubble Space Telescope spends some time looking at the outer planets of our solar system.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Periodic dims in a star’s constant light are as likely to be caused by star pairs that occasionally move in front of each other as outer planets.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The outer planets are gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and ice giants Uranus and Neptune.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Despite these changes, the outer planet seems to reside continuously in the habitable zone of the system.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2019
  • About this time 40 years ago, two spacecraft were speeding away from Earth toward a rendezvous with the outer planets of the solar system.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Cressy notes that for others, the discovery of outer planets called for a total rethinking of the theological scheme.
    — Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 27 June 2024
  • Furthermore, the two planets are orbiting in a resonance, with the inner planet circling its star twice as often as the outer planet.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2019
  • For 66 years now, the space agency has achieved sublime things—robots on Mars, boots on the moon, spacecraft slaloming through the rings and moons of the outer planets.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 11 July 2024
  • This week in the night sky Get the year’s best view of the distant ice giant Uranus on Sunday night, as the outer planet lies opposite the sun in our sky.
    — National Geographic, 23 Oct. 2019

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