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TESS discovers a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting nearby star
- March 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a star located about 83 light years away. The newfound alien world is slightly larger than Earth and encircles its host in less than four days. The finding was reported in a paper published Feb. 28 on the arXiv pre-print server.
Originally published at Phys.org