NASA Discovers New "Warm Jupiter" Exoplanet.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a "warm" exoplanet, TOI-4127 b, with twice the mass of Jupiter orbiting a distant dwarf star. The exoplanet takes 56.4 days to orbit its host star and has a highly eccentric orbit that brings it to within around a third of the distance between the Earth and the sun from the star. The team thinks it has the capability of becoming a hot Jupiter if another celestial object perturbs its orbit. TESS has identified over 6,200 exoplanet candidates since its launch in April 2018.