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TESS Finds Hidden Jupiter‑Mass Planet 40,000 Light‑Years Away Using Einstein Microlensing
https://www.bioscience.com.pk/en/subject/physics/scientists-discovered-a-planet-40-000-light-years-away-hiding-in-nasa-data-using-an-einstein-prediction-made-more-than-a-century-agoa novel technique on NASA data to uncover a previously hidden planet, revealing a world once thought out of reach. NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has identified a distant exoplanet hidden in its archive by exploiting a detection...
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Astronomers Unveil Super-Jupiter With 180-Day Orbit After 200 Nights Of Watching
https://www.bioscience.com.pk/en/subject/astronomy/scientists-tracked-a-hidden-giant-planet-for-years-before-revealing-one-of-the-longest-transiting-worlds-ever-foundclassifying it as a “super‑Jupiter.” Initial hints of the planet emerged from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and an international team led by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast spent several years gathering the data needed...
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48-Jupiter-Mass Brown Dwarf Transits Brightest Massive Star Known to Host One
https://www.bioscience.com.pk/en/subject/space-science/tess-finds-a-48-jupiter-mass-brown-dwarf-around-an-aging-starstars are born. The companion, designated HIP 61637 b, was first flagged by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and later examined in a study posted on arXiv. Its well‑determined mass, orbital characteristics, stellar host, and age place...
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Astronomers Just Discovered A Rare Four Star System With A Bizarre Triple Eclipse Pattern
https://www.bioscience.com.pk/en/subject/astronomy/a-four-star-system-just-revealed-an-eclipse-pattern-astronomers-had-never-confirmed-beforehave confirmed the discovery of a rare four-star system featuring a unique eclipse pattern, as captured by NASA’s TESS mission. Astronomers have identified a unique quadruple star system, known as TIC 433545934, which displays an unprecedented level of...
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Scientists Discover a Retrograde World That May Hide a Giant Outer Planet
https://www.bioscience.com.pk/en/subject/space-science/astronomers-found-a-planet-orbiting-backward-and-it-may-reveal-a-hidden-giantarchitecture of the whole system. Tracking the TOI‑1710 system. Astronomers combined observations from the NEID instrument, TESS, and other telescopes to study the planet’s orbit. The data revealed the planet’s tilted path, confirmed its transit signal,...
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Astronomers Discover Bizarre Water World Orbiting So Close It Is Being Ripped Apart
https://www.bioscience.com.pk/en/subject/astronomy/scientists-found-a-planet-with-half-its-mass-made-of-water-but-its-star-is-slowly-pulling-it-apartof reflected light. By synthesizing historical data from the Kepler Space Telescope with fresh measurements from NASA’s TESS mission taken six years later, researchers detected an unexpected phase shift in this light modulation. A graphic showing how...
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Astronomers Have Discovered a Bizarre Exoplanet Orbiting Its Star in the Wrong Direction
https://www.bioscience.com.pk/en/subject/astronomy/this-strange-exoplanet-is-moving-the-wrong-way-around-its-star-and-scientists-want-to-know-whyfar more complex than those observed in our cosmic neighborhood. An Orbital Mismatch Around a Red Dwarf Detected via NASA’s TESS space telescope, GJ 3090 b is classified as a sub-Neptune—a world roughly 2.2 times the size of Earth with a mass...
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Astronomers Reveal Helium Nova Binary After 25 Years Spot 20 Million Mph Gas Bullets
https://www.bioscience.com.pk/en/subject/astronomy/a-strange-stellar-explosion-hid-its-secret-for-25-years-then-astronomers-finally-found-the-sourceHubble Space Telescope imaging, spectroscopy from the Southern African Large Telescope, and photometry from NASA’s TESS mission. This multi‑wavelength approach delivered the first definitive confirmation of the binary components behind the helium nova....
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NASA’s New Habitable Worlds Observatory Aims to Spot Earth‑Like Planets and Signs of Life
https://www.bioscience.com.pk/en/subject/space-science/nasas-next-great-observatory-will-search-the-galaxy-for-another-blue-planetand characterising planets that could host conditions similar to those on our planet. Earlier missions such as Kepler and TESS have already identified thousands of exoplanets, yet only a fraction lie within zones where liquid water might persist. HWO...
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Astronomers Discover Bizarre Mega-Earth That Defies Current Planet Formation Rules
https://www.bioscience.com.pk/en/subject/astronomy/astronomers-find-an-ultra-dense-mega-earth-23-times-our-planets-mass-but-only-2-5-times-its-sizeKroft et al, arXiv) Detecting an Anomaly The candidate was first spotted by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which monitors stars for the subtle brightness dips caused by passing planets. To confirm the planet’s extreme mass, the...
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Astronomers Discover Massive Mega Earth That Defies Planetary Formation Laws
https://www.bioscience.com.pk/en/subject/astronomy/this-giant-rocky-planet-is-denser-than-earth-and-orbiting-a-star-in-a-way-scientists-never-expectedone is,” said Thomas Beatty, an astronomer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The discovery utilized data from NASA’s TESS mission combined with high-precision radial velocity measurements from the NEID spectrograph, located at the Kitt Peak...
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Asteroseismology Reveals Surprising Secrets of Stars Orbiting Hidden Black Holes
https://www.bioscience.com.pk/en/subject/space-science/asteroseismology-reveals-surprising-secrets-of-stars-orbiting-hidden-black-holesbeginning of a more detailed investigation. What Future Observations Can Reveal Continued monitoring with missions such as TESS, and possibly future dedicated asteroseismology satellites, will help to: Refine the oscillation frequencies and amplitudes...
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Astronomers Discover Massive Rocky Planet That Should Not Exist According to Current Models
https://www.bioscience.com.pk/en/subject/astronomy/astronomers-found-a-planet-23-times-heavier-than-earth-that-should-have-become-a-gas-giant-but-it-stayed-rocky-insteadwhich measures about 2.55 times the radius of Earth, was initially detected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). By monitoring the subtle periodic dimming of a host star, researchers identified the candidate before conducting...
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Real Planets Are Becoming Even Stranger Than Anything Seen In Star Trek
https://www.bioscience.com.pk/en/subject/astronomy/star-trek-dreamed-of-strange-new-worlds-exoplanets-revealed-something-even-strangerand titanium within its atmosphere, painting a picture of a world governed by high-energy physics. Measurements from @NASA_TESS have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of the hottest...