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Morning Edition · Sunday, October 11, 2026Published at 2:16 AM EDT · New York
Independent Researcher Uses Claude Code to Flag a 1.4-Earth-Radius Planet Candidate in Years-Old TESS Data, and NASA Approves Follow-Up
The candidate around TIC 4206066 repeats every 3.18 days and survived 74 agent-run falsification tests, but it is not yet a confirmed planet.
Pavel Rabtsevich, an independent researcher, reported transit-like signals in Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) photometry of TIC 4206066. The star is a late-K dwarf about 116 light-years away, and the signal has been in NASA dat…
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