For the first time, NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to ripples in space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting planets TESS regularly reveals, the newfound world is a super-Jupiter orbiting far from its host star. “When TESS launched, no one expected it to ever be capable […]
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Exoplanets, Goddard Space Flight Center, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), The Universe
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July 1, 2026
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