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NASA's TESS telescope found a planet 40,000 light-years away and it wasn't even looking for it

"When TESS launched, no one expected it to ever be capable of finding this kind of planet." ...

TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant ...

Search for Earth twin: TESS finds exoplanet via microlensing for the first time

The TESS space telescope has discovered hundreds of exoplanets. Now another one has been added, for which the method used ...

NASA's TESS telescope has detected an exoplanet using microlensing for the first time

The TESS telescope, owned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was able to detect an exoplanet for ...
NextBigFuture

About one out of every ten stars has an earth size planet in the habitable zone per a gravitational microlensing survey

Approximately one out of every ten stars have a planet roughly the size of the Earth with an orbit that, if there was water and atmosphere, would create a temperature and climate roughly that same as ...
SpaceRef

Microlensing Reveals Sub-Saturn Giant Planets are Common, Not Rare

Astronomers have found a new exoplanet that could alter the standing theory of planet formation. With a mass that’s between that of Neptune and Saturn, and its location beyond the “snow line” of its ...
Science Daily

Astrophysicists discover planets in extragalactic galaxies using microlensing

Astrophysicists have discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing -- an astronomical phenomenon and the only known method capable of ...