By Paul Scott Anderson, on January 9th, 2020
TESS Mission’s First Earth-size World in Star’s Habitable-Zone. Video Credit: NASA Goddard
NASA’s newest exoplanet-hunting space telescope, TESS, has already been making some exciting discoveries, and now two more have just been announced: its first Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of its star and its first planet orbiting two stars.
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By Leonidas Papadopoulos, on October 5th, 2015 An artist’s concept of a hypothetical terrestrial exoplanet with two moons orbiting inside the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. New research has shown that such planets could under the right conditions generate their own magnetic field, which could render them potentially habitable. Image Credit: D. Aguilar/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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By Leonidas Papadopoulos, on July 8th, 2014 An artist’s rendering of the newly discovered exoplanet OGLE-2013-BLG-0341LBb (far right) orbiting one star (right) of a binary red dwarf star system, from an Earth-type distance of approximately 0.9 Astronomical Units away. Image Credit: Cheongho Han, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea
The discovery of yet another exoplanet orbiting outside of the habitable […]
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