Astronomers discover a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a nearby star

Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 07:16 in Astronomy & Space

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new super-Earth exoplanet that orbits a nearby M dwarf star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-1846 b, is about two times larger and four times more massive than Earth. The finding was detailed in a paper published June 23 on the arXiv preprint server.

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