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Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

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Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

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A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.