August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
...-like planet is likely to depend on the planets in Jupiter-like orbits in the same system (the upcoming NASA TESS and ESA PLATO missions will discover planets with the transit method, but they focus on nearby...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
... surface this year and is expected to bring back to Earth at least two kilograms of rock and soil samples. TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite which is planned to discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars...
27 October 2017
Astronomers find system with six planets
... most confirmed planets is our Sun, with 8 confirmed planets. But with future missions such as PLATO and TESS to look forward to, perhaps more large multi-planet systems will be found. For more information on this research...
04 May 2018
NASA's InSight mission gears up for tomorrow's launch
... martian rover known as InSight. Just a few weeks ago, NASA sent their Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) into orbit with the aid of a Falcon 9; now it is the turn of the InSight lander. This time however...
03 August 2018
Plate tectonics not needed for life, but UV light is
... are too far away at the moment to probe with current technology, next-generation telescopes, such as NASA's TESS and James Webb Telescopes, will hopefully find many more just like them. "There's an important distinction...
19 November 2018
Kepler officially retires after receiving final "goodnight" commands
... a million miles to our planet. The baton will now be handed onto the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to pick up where Kepler left off.
