20 September 2018
TESS finds its first exoplanet – a super-Earth 60 light years away
Launched just over five months ago, NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has sent back its first detailed look at a patch of the southern sky and has also revealed ...
07 January 2019
Two new firsts for exoplanets found by TESS
... the habitable zone of its host star and key to uncovering worlds such as these is the recently-launched Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). But finding a rocky planet orbiting at a reasonable distance from its host star will be difficult...
27 July 2019
Hundreds of new planet candidates detected by Kepler
After a year in space scanning the skies in the Southern Hemisphere, NASA’s latest planet hunting telescope TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has helped astronomers discover a bumper haul of 21 planets outside our solar system and it is ...
27 September 2019
TESS sees its first rare star-shredding event
... that is capable of generating nuclear fusion reactions in its core, but for the first time, NASA's planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has watched it happen. The bringer of doom is a supermassive black hole that sits at the...
17 April 2020
A six-planet system is discovered and more could be hiding say astronomers
... program that helped discover the six-planet system. Their results were also backed up with TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) data, which also helped reveal that the density of the innermost planet resembles that of terrestrial...
23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
...can be difficult to simulate. In order to form a more complete picture of exoplanet atmospheres, the researchers incorporated flare data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey, launched in 2018, into their model simulations. The team, made...
