Intl collaboration led by Chinese scientists discovers potentially habitable super

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By Deng Xiaoci (Global Times) 13:48, June 04, 2025

Unlike the transit method and radial velocity methods, the TTV technique is not subject to their specific observational challenges. Instead, it can indirectly detect the presence of a planet by analyzing the TTVs of another known planet in orbital resonance with it, Sun said. "It demonstrates the potential of the TTV technique to detect low-mass planets in habitable zones of sun-like stars," Sun added.

Global Times also learned from the Yunnan observatories that the research was jointly conducted by the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology, and Hamburg Observatory.

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