19 February 2018
TESS arrives in Florida ahead of its April launch
... star being observed – from the thousands of stars TESS will study. TESS is on the look-out for Earth and Super-...three transits are needed to confirm that a planet exists. TESS will therefore identify prime targets for follow-up observations with ...
20 September 2018
TESS finds its first exoplanet – a super-Earth 60 light years away
... Pi Mensae was one of several hundred thousand pre-selected stars TESS has earmarked for further investigation, no doubt due, in part, ... observatories. “In a sea of stars brimming with new worlds, TESS is casting a wide net and will haul in a bounty ...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
...bright K dwarf star located approximately 16 parsecs away, HD21749b is an exoplanet which currently stands as the longest-period TESS planet confirmed to date. Although that is notable in its own right, there is another feature of HD21749b that makes...
15 April 2018
TESS, NASA's planet-finding mission launches today!
... for planets outside of our Solar System. TESS, which stands for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite...to a minimum. To boldly go where no observatory has gone before (in orbit), TESS will be hitching a lift on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and so far,...
07 January 2019
Two new firsts for exoplanets found by TESS
... as these is the recently-launched Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). But finding a rocky planet orbiting at a reasonable distance ...50 planets with a radii of less than four Earth radii, TESS it seems is already off to a good start. And, ...
27 September 2019
TESS sees its first rare star-shredding event
...peak brightness and thanks to it being in what's called TESS' 'Continuous Viewing Zone,' meaning scientists have observations of it...outbursts that light up the cosmos,” concluded Padi Boyd, a TESS project scientist at Goddard. If in the meantime, if ...
