π-Earth: Newfound Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbits Its Star in 3.14 Days0

• From Around the Web, Space
• June 18, 2020

Using data from NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission, the SPECULOOS telescopes and the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) on the Keck I telescope at W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers have discovered a transiting Earth-sized planet in a close-in orbit around the red dwarf EPIC 249631677.