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NASA spots Earth-sized, rocky Planet

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission has discovered a second Earth-sized, rocky planet within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid...

January 12, 2023

TOI-2180: New Jupiter-like Exoplanet

A group of scientists recently discovered a new planet. The planet is of the size of Jupiter. The new planet is 379 light years away from the earth....

January 20, 2022

GJ 367b: Astronomers discover Ultra Short Planet

The astronomers recently found GJ 367b, a small planet that is circling a dim red dwarf star. The star is 31 light years away from the sun. About...

December 3, 2021

NASA satellite finds 66 new exoplanets

The NASA’s planet-hunter TESS has found 66 exoplanets or worlds beyond our solar system, as well as nearly 2100 candidates as such candidates on which the astronomers are...

August 13, 2020

TESS Mission discovers new Alien Worlds

NASA has detected three new planets in a nearby star system. These 3 planets – one slightly larger than Earth and two new planets – which are not...

August 8, 2019

L 98-59b, L 98-59c and L 98-59d

L 98-59b, L 98-59c and L 98-59d are new planets discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Features of the New Planets While L 98-59b is around...

July 1, 2019

NASA's Exoplanet Mission Finds 1st Earth-Size Alien World

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Mission of NASA has discovered its first Earth-size alien world. About the Discovery The planet, HD 21749c, is about 89 per cent of...

April 17, 2019

NASA’s Exoplanet Mission Finds 1st Earth-Size Alien World

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Mission of NASA has discovered its first Earth-size alien world. About the Discovery The planet, HD 21749c, is about 89 per cent of...

April 17, 2019

NASA Discovers New Planet

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of USA has discovered a new planet. It is the third new planet discovered by the NASA mission, Transiting Exoplanet Survey...

January 8, 2019

TESS: NASA launches its newest planet-hunting spacecraft on SpaceX rocket

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a new planet-hunting spacecraft onboard of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Carnival, Florida, US....

April 20, 2018

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