A planet that is primarily composed of silicate rocks.
1 Magnified images: a rocky planet , Lawn, sparkling fire snaking over its surface.
2 The rocky planet , Wolf 1061c, is a mere fourteen light years away.
3 Of course Earth is not the only rocky planet at risk of impacts.
4 Luyten b: The Luyten b exoplanet is most likely also a rocky planet .
5 Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside the solar system.
6 The smallest rocky planet detected to date has around four times the mass of Earth.
7 Paola, Erin, it's a rocky planet without an atmosphere-
8 A rocky planet would be ideal for this.
9 He believes that virtually every sun-like star in the universe could have an earth-like rocky planet .
10 The rocky planet Wolf 1061c is a mere 14 light years away.
11 That's how Corot-7b, a rocky planet with roughly twice the heft of Earth, was spotted in February.
12 Though a rocky planet like Earth, Mars is much smaller than our home world and has evolved quite differently.
13 A real challenge is slowing the spacecraft down once it reaches Mercury, the smallest rocky planet in the Solar System.
14 The previously discovered planet Proxima b is (most likely) a rocky planet orbiting the star within its habitable zone.
15 The team says that a dedicated five year campaign should be able to discern the presence of even an Earth sized rocky planet .
16 Thirty years earlier, astronomers had detected a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere on an rocky planet around the largest of the three stars in that system.
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