27 July 2019
Hundreds of new planet candidates detected by Kepler
...it is hoped that even more exoworlds will be found as TESS now turns its attention to the Northern Hemisphere to complete the... expedition ever undertaken. As wonderful as this news is, TESS is not the only one making substantial discoveries. Although ...
02 August 2019
Newly found exoplanet may be suitable for life
...Institute of technology (MIT) hosted the first TESS Science conference dedicated to the multitude of ... of Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute and a member of the TESS science team, along with doctoral candidate Jack Madden and undergraduate student...
01 February 2021
Astronomers find a rare six star system with three eclipsing binaries
... systems are quadruples, followed by triples. But thanks to TESS this number is set to rise, as the satellite continues... extended mission that will end sometime late in 2022. TESS identifies potentially exciting objects by detecting a minute drop in ...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
... 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 covering...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
..., and K2. NASA’s upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) due for launch this year, will also search for...that builds on our knowledge from NASA’s Kepler, K2 and TESS space missions, and extending it in new directions that were previously...
09 October 2017
New telescope attachment helps find exoplanets
...) early in 2018. It is up to ground-based facilities to rapidly and reliably follow-up on candidate planets that are identified by TESS." The diffuser has already been tested on the 0.6 metre Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory in California, and...
