TESS has struck paydirt again. NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft has found two new super-Earths orbiting a star only 33 light-years away. These are two of the closest rocky planets ever found. The star’s name is HD 260655. It’s a bright M dwarf star, sometimes called a red dwarf. Both planets are rocky super-Earths, and though the …



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