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Astronomers have discovered a gas giant, TOI-6894b, orbiting a small red dwarf star, challenging existing planet formation ...
As part of a survey seeking giant planets around low-mass stars, researchers examined more than 91,000 red dwarf stars and ...
TOI-6894 is roughly 240 light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo and is the smallest-known star to host a large planet ...
For decades, scientists thought that stars much smaller than our Sun couldn't form giant planets. That theory just took a ...
Astronomers are stunned by a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star. This rare discovery defies existing theories and ...
Yet it produced a gas giant with a radius larger than Saturn's, according to the international team of researchers who ...
A giant exoplanet is surprisingly chill given how close it is to its red dwarf star — perhaps because the star is so little.
Science teaches us that stars are much larger than planets, but what about large planets that orbit small stars? This is what ...
Astronomers stunned as giant planet challenges what we know about space - The discovery marks the smallest-known star to host ...
A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun. Such small stars ...
It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.
Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our sun. Like many small stars ...