Latest Space Breaking News: TESS detects new sub-Neptune exoplanet more than three times larger than Earth

Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-tess-neptune-exoplanet-larger-earth.html

Summary: Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a bright G-type star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-3493 b is more than three times larger and about nine times more massive than Earth. The finding was reported in a research paper published April 17 on the preprint server arXiv.