A study led by researchers of the University of Liège and the CSIC – using observations from NASA’s TESS telescope – presents the detection of a system of two planets […]
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Discovery of 69 New Exoplanets Using Machine Learning
In a groundbreaking achievement, a team of machine learning scientists and astronomers from Universities Space Research Association (USRA), the SETI Institute, and NASA discovered 69 new exoplanets using advanced machine […]
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Variability of Known Exoplanet Host Stars Observed by TESS
Both direct and indirect methods of exoplanet detection rely upon detailed knowledge of the potential host stars. Such stellar characterization allows for accurate extraction of planetary properties, as well as […]
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A Potentially Volcano-Covered Earth-Size World Discovered
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet, or world beyond our solar system, that may be carpeted with volcanoes. Called LP 791-18 d, the planet could undergo volcanic outbursts as often […]
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LP 791-18 d: A Terrestrial Exoplanet – With Volcanoes
A large international team led by astronomers at the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets at Université de Montréal (UdeM) today announced in the journal Nature the discovery of a […]
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Two super-Earths At The Edge Of The Habitable Zone Of The Nearby M Dwarf TOI-2095
The main scientific goal of TESS is to find planets smaller than Neptune around stars bright enough to allow further characterization studies.
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LHS 475 b: A Venus-sized Planet Orbiting a Nearby M Dwarf
Based on photometric observations by TESS, we present the discovery of a Venus-sized planet transiting LHS 475, an M3 dwarf located 12.5 pc from the Sun.
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TOI-733 b – A Planet In The Small-planet Radius Valley Orbiting A Sun-like Star
We report the discovery of a hot (Teq ≈ 1055 K) planet in the small planet radius valley transiting the Sun-like star TOI-733, as part of the KESPRINT follow-up program […]
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A Super-Earth And A Mini-Neptune Near The 2:1 MMR Straddling The Radius Valley Around The Nearby Mid-M Dwarf TOI-2096
Several planetary formation models have been proposed to explain the observed abundance and variety of compositions of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes.
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The Occurrence Rate of Terrestrial Planets Orbiting Nearby Mid-to-late M Dwarfs from TESS Sectors 1-42
We present an analysis of a volume-complete sample of 363 mid-to-late M dwarfs within 15 pc of the Sun with masses between 0.1 and 0.3 M⊙ observed by TESS within […]