TESS discovers a Venus-sized exoplanet orbiting nearby star

Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a team of astronomers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and elsewhere has detected a new exoplanet. The newfound alien world, designated LHS 475 b, is about the size of Venus and orbits a nearby M-dwarf star. The discovery was reported April 4 on the arXiv…