And I’m Free, Free-Floatin’… or am I?
TESS was designed to find transiting planets. Today’s authors use TESS to search for free-floating planets via gravitational lensing and find a candidate event.
To Inspiral or Not to Inspiral
Close-in planets are expected to have shrinking orbits. Catching a planet decay on its way to the warm embrace of its star is however impressively difficult.
I (exoplanet HR 5183 b) came in like a wrecking ball
Everyone wants to find a habitable planet. The authors of today’s paper make a compelling case that the HR 5183 system is not the best place to look.