Astronomy Research

NASA’s TESS Mission Finds Planetary System in New Way

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July 1, 2026 • 39 views
Original source: NASA

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. “...