19 February 2018
TESS arrives in Florida ahead of its April launch
...’s next planet-hunting mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has arrived in Florida to begin preparations for its launch in April. TESS is set to become the first NASA science mission to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from...
02 August 2019
Newly found exoplanet may be suitable for life
... first TESS Science conference dedicated to the multitude of discoveries NASA’s planet... this gives this piping hot exoplanet an equilibrium temperature of around (...host star so that researchers can use the transit information to work out its density - ...
01 February 2021
Astronomers find a rare six star system with three eclipsing binaries
Scientists using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered the first six-star system ever found where all of the stars participate in eclipses, ...
09 October 2017
New telescope attachment helps find exoplanets
...describes the diffusers. "This technology is especially relevant considering the impending launch of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) early in 2018. It is up to ground-based facilities to rapidly and reliably follow-up on candidate...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
...is there to look forward to in this next year? Well, it is going to be a very busy year for NASA! NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) which is designed to detect small rock-and-ice planets orbiting a diverse range of stellar types and...
15 April 2018
TESS, NASA's planet-finding mission launches today!
...TESS, the first-ever spaceborne all-sky transit survey whose primary mission is to search for planets outside of our Solar System. TESS, which stands for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite... to NASA for their science missions. As TESS’s job...
