The TESS Mission’s First Earth-Like Planet Found in an Interesting Trio
The TESS mission has found an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone of its star, but the question of how the system formed is baffling astronomers.
Astrobites at AAS 235: Day 4
We report on Day 4 of the winter AAS meeting in Honolulu, HI.
Astrobites at AAS 235: Day 2
We report on Day 2 of the winter AAS meeting in Honolulu, HI.
TESS reveals HD118203 b transits after 13 years
TESS is out searching for new exoplanets, but on this occasion, it saw an old one in a new light.
Why are there so many sub-Neptune exoplanets?
Sub-Neptunes are the most common planet in the galaxy, but Neptunes are much rarer. Why?? Read on to find out!
A New, Scattered-Light View of Planet-Forming Disks
New scattered-light images reveal striking substructure in circumstellar disks around nearby low-mass stars.