Diana Dragomir

LTT-9779 b is a planet from the 'hot Neptune desert', a region where worlds usually perish. But it survived thanks to a carbon cocoon: an atmosphere of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide turned out to be so thick that it doesn't evaporate even at 2000°C. On top of that, this exoplanet reflects 80% o

For the first time, a planet has been detected in TESS data using gravitational microlensing. The event Gaia23bra, identified by the Gaia survey as an isolated lens, revealed sharp caustic-crossing peaks in the TESS light curve—an unmistakable sign of a binary system with a planetary companion. Join