{"id":230411,"date":"2026-02-03T01:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/long-period-jupiter-like-exoplanet-discovered-with-tess"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:38:29","slug":"long-period-jupiter-like-exoplanet-discovered-with-tess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/long-period-jupiter-like-exoplanet-discovered-with-tess","title":{"rendered":"Long-period Jupiter-like exoplanet discovered with TESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/long-period-jupiter-like-exoplanet-discovered-with-tess2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet transiting a distant star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-6692 b, is the size of Jupiter and has an orbital period of about 130 days. The discovery was presented in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2601.16357\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> January 22 on the <i>arXiv<\/i> pre-print server.<\/p>\n<p>TESS is conducting a survey of about 200,000 bright stars near the sun with the aim of searching for transiting exoplanets. To date, more than 7,800 potential planets (known as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-04-nasa-tess-celebrates-year-scanning.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">TESS Objects of Interest<\/a>) have been cataloged using this satellite, with 733 of those discoveries officially verified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet transiting a distant star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-6692 b, is the size of Jupiter and has an orbital period of about 130 days. The discovery was presented in a paper published January 22 on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}