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NASA just found a planet 'hiding' in TESS spacecraft data, all thanks to Einstein

NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system, and it is thanks to ...
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Scientists discovered a planet 40,000 light-years away hiding in NASA data using an Einstein prediction made more than a century ago

NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has confirmed a distant exoplanet that was hidden in its data by using a ...

TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...
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Astronomers Reveal Rare Planet Far From the Galactic Core Using Einstein’s Space-Time Effect

In an unprecedented discovery, astronomers have detected a rare exoplanet located at the very edge of the Milky Way galaxy, using a method grounded in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity.