NASA’s exoplanet hunter TESS may have spotted its first rogue planet
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) may have discovered its first free-floating or “orphaned” planet. That’s a planet wandering through the cosmos, without a star, all alone. The potential discovery shows that TESS can use a phenomenon first suggested by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago to detect these so-called rogue planets. Despite the … Read more