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10,091 new exoplanet candidates found in largest single discovery yet – "I'm really excited for the future of the field"

In about three decades, humanity has gone from barely knowing that there were planets beyond the Solar System to confirming ...
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Astronomers identify 10,091 new exoplanet candidates in TESS data

Astronomers have identified 10,091 previously unknown exoplanet candidates by reanalyzing the first year of NASA’s TESS mission data, marking the largest single discovery of its kind. The team used a ...
New Scientist

10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has been searching for exoplanets since its launch in 2018, and it turns out it ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel

‘Super-Jupiter’ exoplanet is not so Jupiter-like, UCSC study finds

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a “super-Jupiter” has substantial differences from our solar system’s ...
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New Space Telescopes Hunting Earth-Like Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds Beyond

Space telescopes are revolutionizing exoplanet discovery, allowing astronomers to detect Earth-like worlds orbiting distant stars. By observing subtle dimming of starlight, measuring gravitational ...
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Red Dwarf Stars Lack Mid-Sized Worlds

How many exoplanets orbit M-dwarfs stars, the latter of which is the most common type of star in the galaxy? This is what a ...