What's TOI-6894b that just showed up around a dwarf star only 2.5 times its size; here's why that’s weird

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Astronomers have discovered a gas giant, TOI-6894b, orbiting a small red dwarf star, challenging existing planet formation models. Giant gas planets aren’t supposed to form around tiny stars. But scientists have found one, about the size of Saturn, orbiting a red dwarf barely bigger than the planet itself. The discovery could rewrite what we thought we knew about how solar systems are built.