TESS
NASA’s TESS Watched an Outburst from Comet 46P/Wirtanen
TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, has imaged an outburst from the comet 46P/Wirtanen. It caught the outburst in what…
A New Way to Measure the Age of the Milky Way
Using data collected by Kepler's K2 observation campaign, an international team of scientists was able to more accurately predict the…
TESS Has Now Captured Almost the Entire Southern Sky. Here’s a Mosaic Made of 15,347 Photographs
NASA has just released a beautiful panoramic image of the southern sky, which is composed of images taken by the…
It Seems Impossible, But Somehow This Planet Survived its Star’s Red Giant Phase
Astronomers working with TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) data have found a planet where it shouldn't be: in the space…
Breakthrough Listen and NASA Team Up to Look for Signs of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence!
Breakthrough Listen recently entered into a partnership with members of the NASA TESS mission team to search for aliens!
One Year, Almost 1,000 Planetary Candidates. An Update On TESS
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Telescope launched back in April, 2018. After a few months of testing, it was ready to…
NASA Promised More Smaller, Earth-size Exoplanets. TESS is Delivering.
When NASA launched TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) in 2018, it had a specific goal. While its predecessor, the Kepler…
The Planet-Hunting TESS Discovers Its Smallest Exoplanet to Date
TESS recently discovered a three-planet system orbiting a red dwarf star 35 light years away, increasing the number of rocky…
TESS Just Found its First Earth-Sized World
NASA's new planet-hunting telescope, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), just found its first Earth-sized world. Though the Earth-sized planet, and…
TESS Finds its Third Planet, a sub-Neptune with a 36-Day Orbit
After only three months of operation, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) spacecraft is delivering on its mission to find…