NASA just found a planet ‘hiding’ in TESS spacecraft data, all thanks to Einstein
An illustration of the newly discovered exoplanet Gaia23bra b. (Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system. The technique relies on a phenomenon introduced by Einstein in his 1915 theory of gravity, general relativity, called gravitational microlensing.Continue Reading











