April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
..., NASA has already dispatched a replacement to carry on where Kepler left off. Launched in April 2018, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to search for planets in the Earth to Neptune mass/radius range - around 200,000...
15 April 2018
TESS, NASA's planet-finding mission launches today!
... primary mission is to search for planets outside of our Solar System. TESS, which stands for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, will search for its targets by monitoring more than 200,000 stars for temporary drops in brightness ...
19 February 2018
TESS arrives in Florida ahead of its April launch
...next planet-hunting mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has arrived in Florida... temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits, as it undertakes a two-year photometric survey of the solar neighbourhood. Over the next...
20 September 2018
TESS finds its first exoplanet – a super-Earth 60 light years away
...ago, NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has sent back its first ...stars (aside from Pi Mensae) that astronomers already know have transiting planets based on previous studies from ground observatories. “In a ...
07 January 2019
Two new firsts for exoplanets found by TESS
... the habitable zone of its host star and key to uncovering worlds such as these is the recently-launched Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). But finding a rocky planet orbiting at a reasonable distance from its host star will be difficult...
27 July 2019
Hundreds of new planet candidates detected by Kepler
...year in space scanning the skies in the Southern Hemisphere, NASA’s latest planet hunting telescope TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has helped astronomers discover a bumper haul of 21 planets outside our solar system and it is hoped that...
