How to Use exoplanet in a Sentence

exoplanet

noun

• The most Earth-size exoplanet found so far may be Kepler-1649c.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2021
• 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
• The spectrum of light that has passed through the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-96b shows that water is present there.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 July 2022
• The third theme calls for either a probe of the Milky Way or an exoplanet hunting telescope.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 11 June 2021
• This is the chief lesson of two decades of studying exoplanets.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• The first exoplanet discovered still holds the record for being the least massive.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2022
• The ultrahot gas giant exoplanet known as WASP-76b is where droplets of iron rain down from the sky at night.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
• In the image of the exoplanet WASP-96b, water vapor was seen.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• The data for a giant exoplanet, called Wasp-96 b, flashed onto the screen.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2022
• In fact, the first exoplanet was discovered by the Very Large Telescope array in Chile in 2004.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
• Kepler-16b was the first exoplanet found to circle a double star.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2021
• The hunt for exoplanets allows all of us to be scientists.
  — Swapna Krishna, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
• What turned out to be hard for Venus will only be harder for exoplanets many light-years away.
  — Elise Cutts, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2024
• In the 1990s, many of the exoplanets astronomers discovered were hot Jupiters.
  — John Wenz, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2019
• This giant exoplanet zips around the star remnant, which is about the size of Earth, in a very close orbit every 34 hours.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Sep. 2020
• The exoplanet, or planet outside of our solar system, is a gas giant about six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
• 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
• But a look at exoplanets suggests that this isn't an inevitable fate.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
• 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
• And clouds float within the hazy, hot atmosphere of a giant exoplanet more than 1,000 light-years away.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 July 2022
• An exoplanet is one that orbits around a star other than our Sun.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• The exoplanet is just 41 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Octans.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
• They'venow spotted an exoplanet about 8% larger than the size of Neptune in a quick orbit around AU Mic.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 June 2020
• KELT-9b is a rarity, even in its own class of exoplanets.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020
• In these cases, the brightness of the full moon will depend on factors such as the size of the moon in the exoplanet’s night sky, its proximity to the host star, its reflectance and so on.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
• Indeed, not a single exoplanet has been found around a white dwarf using this method.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
• The astronomers estimate the exoplanet to be about the size of Saturn and orbit the neutron star or blackhole at about twice the distance of Saturn from the Sun.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2021
• Reaching the nearest exoplanet would take tens of thousands of years.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2020
• An exoplanet is a planet that orbits a star other than our sun.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• CubeSats have also studied nearby stars and exoplanets, which are worlds outside the solar system.
  — Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024