Meet Wolf Cukier, the 17-year-old New York student who, on the third day of a NASA Goddard internship in 2019, spotted a planet 6.9 times the size of Earth circling two stars 1,300 light-years away roughly every 95 days, the first of its kind NASA's TESS had ever found

Meet Wolf Cukier, the 17-year-old New York student who, on the third day of a NASA Goddard internship in 2019, spotted a planet 6.9 times the size of Earth circling two stars 1,300 light-years away roughly every 95 days, the first of its kind NASA's TESS had ever found

A teenager's summer job reviewing flagged data led to the discovery of a planet orbiting two distant stars—a find so rare that NASA's planet-hunting satellite had never seen one before.