NASA's TESS planet-finding spacecraft completed its primary mission about 3 months ago. TESS's (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) job was to…
We're getting better and better at detecting exoplanets. Using the transit method of detection, the Kepler Space Telescope examined over…
An international team of astronomers have found the first-ever example of a pulsating star that emits energy from only one…
Researchers working with data from NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) have a found a planet that orbits two stars.…
TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, has imaged an outburst from the comet 46P/Wirtanen. It caught the outburst in what…
Astronomers working with TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) data have found a planet where it shouldn't be: in the space…
NASA's new planet-hunting telescope, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), just found its first Earth-sized world. Though the Earth-sized planet, and…
After only three months of operation, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) spacecraft is delivering on its mission to find…
How many exoplanets are there? Not that long ago, we didn't know if there were any. Then we detected a…
They say there's more than one way to skin an interstellar cat, and in astronomy there's more than one way…