Discovery of Massive Planet Around Small Red Dwarf Star Challenges Astronomy’s Core Assumptions – altnews.org

Discovery of massive planet around small red dwarf star challenges astronomy’s core assumptions – altnews.org

Discovery of massive planet around small red dwarf star challenges astronomy’s core assumptions Scientists discovered TOI-6894b, a Saturn-sized gas giant

Giant planet that orbits a dwarf star unleashes new theories among astronomers – The Observatorial

Astronomers They have discovered a giant planet, called toi-6894b, which orbits a tiny red dwarf with only 20 percent of the mass of the sun, challenging planetary formation theories. This system was discovered as part of a large -scale investigation of satellite data of exoplanets in transit (Tess), which seeks giant planets around low mass […]

Giant planet around tiny star challenges formation theories

An international team of astronomers said on June 4, 2025, that they’ve found a giant planet around a tiny star. The discovery challenges theories of planet formation. Image via University of Warwick/ Mark Garlick/ University of Liège. Astronomers have found a giant planet orbiting a tiny star. The giant planet is Saturn-sized and the star is a red dwarf, with about 20% the mass of our sun. Theories of planet formation said that low-mass stars …

Astronomers baffled by mysterious giant planet orbiting tiny star - Times Kuwait

A recent astronomical discovery has left scientists around the world puzzled: a massive, Jupiter-like planet has been found orbiting a tiny star—defying everything we thought we knew about how planets form. The planet, designated TOI-6894b, orbits a small red dwarf star named TOI-6894, located approximately 240 light-years away in the constellation Leo. What makes this discovery astonishing is that the star is only about one-fifth the mass of ou…

Giant planet found orbiting tiny star challenges theories on planetary formation

A recent astronomical discovery has shaken long-held beliefs about how planets form. For decades, scientists thought that stars much smaller than our Sun couldn’t form giant planets. That theory just took a major hit. A gas giant has been found orbiting one of the smallest stars known to host such a planet—a low-mass red dwarf called TOI-6894. This tiny star, only about 20% the mass of our Sun, was never expected to harbor a planet as large as T…