exoplanet

noun

exo·plan·et ˈek-sō-ˌpla-nət

ˌek-sō-ˈpla-

: a planet orbiting a star that is not our sun

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Scientists made an exciting -- and pungent -- announcement about a nearby exoplanet this week, finding that a planetary body with a likeness to Jupiter smells of rotten eggs. —

Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 9 July 2024 If the Rubin telescope finds a super-Earth, Rice said, that would be exciting because these celestial bodies, between the sizes of Earth and Neptune, are a common type of exoplanet. —

Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024 And there are more super-puff observations in the works around other stars, too, to help unravel the mystery of these weird exoplanets. —

Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2024 López-Morales, who studies atmospheric dynamics of exoplanets, says that these planets are unlikely to have an atmosphere because of their close proximity to their host star. —

John Wenz, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for exoplanet