17 April 2020
A six-planet system is discovered and more could be hiding say astronomers
... observational 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...
23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
When researchers discovered an exoplanet around our nearest star four years ago, it seemed the perfect object in which to mount an exploration mission in the hopes of finding life. But then further studies showed that Proxima b was subjected to ...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
...missions such as GAIA, Cheops, PLATO, Kepler II and TESS will increase the number of known systems to tens of ... WASP or HATNet) and space observatories (Kepler-2, GAIA, Cheops and TESS). The Twinkle satellite will be built in the UK and launched into...
19 October 2020
Astronomers identify a true water-world that could have an ocean over 100 kms deep
..., will not be visible in the re-observation of this star in TESS cycle 3. In addition, the team suggest that the inner-most planet...regions of attraction and repulsion. This was backed up with TESS data that showed a dimming in the light curve for ...
23 April 2018
CubeSats lead the way for new NASA missions
... slightly larger than a box of cereal. It carries a payload for measuring the brightness of stars, and works similar to TESS by allowing researchers to monitor the brief drop in brightness of nearby stars, when a transiting exoplanet blocks out the...
25 January 2021
Unique six-exoplanet system challenges theories of how planets form
... 18 April, 2018, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been busy searching the skies for exoplanets in orbit... candidates which appear the most promising are put into the TESS Objects of Interest (TOI) Catalogue for further follow up ...
