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Planets orbiting binary systems are an exciting curiosity and NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found its first one. What’s even more exciting is that the discovery was made by teenager Wolf Cukier on his third day of a NASA internship last summer. The planet’s new name is TOI …

NASA’s planet-hunting mission TESS has found its first potentially habitable exoplanet the size of Earth orbiting a star about 100 light-years from Earth, according to the agency. The findings were announced during the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society on Monday in Honolulu. The planet is part of a …