23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
...can be difficult to simulate. In order to form a more complete picture of exoplanet atmospheres, the researchers incorporated flare data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey, launched in 2018, into their model simulations. The team, made...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
...well as the space missions CoRoT, Kepler, and K2. NASA’s upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) due for launch this year, will also search for transits of exoplanets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants around a wide range of stellar...
19 November 2018
Kepler officially retires after receiving final "goodnight" commands
... never come closer than 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.
25 January 2021
Unique six-exoplanet system challenges theories of how planets form
... cosmic backyard, form and evolve. Since its launch on 18 April, 2018, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been busy searching the skies for exoplanets in orbit around the brightest dwarf stars. To date, the planet hunter has...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
... 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 in the sky has been selected by NASA for...
04 May 2018
NASA's InSight mission gears up for tomorrow's launch
... mission; the launch of its 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...
