New candidate for exomoon discovered

Almost all planets in our solar system – and even some dwarf planets – are orbited by moons. In other star systems, however, astronomers have not yet been able to definitively confirm a single moon. Is it because there are no moons there? Certainly not – our observational technology simply isn’t ready yet. But an article published in Nature Astronomy now introduces at least one new candidate for an exomoon. If confirmed as an exomoon, Kepler-1708 b-i – which is 2.6 times larger than Earth – coul...