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TESS discovers an Earth-sized planet orbiting nearby M-dwarf star
- March 29, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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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, which received designation TOI-4616 b, is slightly larger than Earth. The finding was reported in a research paper published March 11 on the arXiv pre-print server.
Originally published at Phys.org