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Space
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Robert Lea

NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter may have spotted its 1st rogue planet

A spacecraft is seen against a background of stars with a glowing brownish red orb.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) may have discovered its first free-floating, or "orphaned," planet. That's a planet roaming the cosmos without a star, all alone.

The potential discovery demonstrates that TESS can use a phenomenon first suggested by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago to spot these so-called rogue planets.

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