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The host star, TOI-6894, is a red dwarf with only 20% the mass of the Sun, typical of the most common stars in our galaxy.
TOI-6894 is roughly 240 light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo and is the smallest-known star to host a large planet ...
A small red dwarf star is challenging our knowledge of how planets form by coexisting with a massive exoplanet, much like a ...
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 ...
Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.
Most of the stars across the Milky Way are small red dwarfs like TOI-6894, which has only 20 percent the mass of our Sun.
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 ...