Skepticism grows over whether the first known exomoon exists

New analyses of Kepler and Hubble data dig into evidence for Kepler 1625b’s satellite

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MOON MISS?  Astronomers revisited data used in detecting the first suspected moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system. Their results muddied the waters. This illustration shows what an Earth-like moon orbiting a Saturn-like planet might look like.

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Hopes that astronomers found a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system may be slowly dimming.