Today, scientists have made a major discovery with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). They have identified a super-Neptune exoplanet, orbiting its host star once every 11.4 days. This exoplanet has an estimated radius of 8.2 times that of Earth and a mass of 22.3 times that of Earth. This makes it one of the smallest and least massive exoplanets ever discovered, and the first super-Neptune exoplanet identified by TESS. Scientists are now exploring the possibility that this exoplanet is part of a larger system.

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source: Phys.org