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Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered an extrasolar planet orbiting TOI-4616—a nearby M-dwarf star. The newfound alien world, ...

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Scientists have just unlocked a new way to discover hidden worlds beyond our solar system, and the results are incredible.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in ...

By applying machine learning to vast TESS datasets, researchers have built one of the most precise catalogs of nearby exoplanets to date.

After years of discovering exoplanets at a staggering pace, astronomers are now starting to distinguish the simply ...

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, ...

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