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Chinese astronomers have employed NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to observe an eclipsing binary of the ...
Published June 3 in Nature Astronomy, the study marks the first use of TTV to identify a super-Earth candidate in the habitable zone of a solar-type star. Kepler-725c orbits its host star, Kepler-725, ...
Monisha Ravisetti is Space.com's Astronomy Editor. She covers black holes, star explosions, gravitational waves, exoplanet discoveries and other enigmas hidden across the fabric of space and time.
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Major surveys from the past two decades include the SDSS, Kepler, Blanco-DECam, Subaru HSC, TESS, ZTF and Euclid.