09 October 2017
New telescope attachment helps find exoplanets
...describes the diffusers. "This technology is especially relevant considering the impending launch of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) early in 2018. It is up to ground-based facilities to rapidly and reliably follow-up on candidate...
02 August 2019
Newly found exoplanet may be suitable for life
... of a possible atmosphere, this gives this piping hot exoplanet an equilibrium temperature of around (254 degrees Celsius (490... front of its host star so that researchers can use the transit information to work out its density - like they did for its...
01 February 2021
Astronomers find a rare six star system with three eclipsing binaries
...Scientists using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered...in front of it - an occurrence known as a transit. Although the spacecraft is looking primarily for exoplanets, researchers can use the same method to find multi-star...
17 April 2020
A six-planet system is discovered and more could be hiding say astronomers
... 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 resembles that of terrestrial-type...
27 September 2019
TESS sees its first rare star-shredding event
... is capable of generating nuclear fusion reactions in its core, but for the first time, NASA's planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has watched it happen. The bringer of doom is a supermassive black hole that sits at the centre...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
...is there to look forward 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...
