TESS
One Year, Almost 1,000 Planetary Candidates. An Update On TESS
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Telescope launched back in April, 2018. After a few months of testing, it was ready to…
NASA Promised More Smaller, Earth-size Exoplanets. TESS is Delivering.
When NASA launched TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) in 2018, it had a specific goal. While its predecessor, the Kepler…
The Planet-Hunting TESS Discovers Its Smallest Exoplanet to Date
TESS recently discovered a three-planet system orbiting a red dwarf star 35 light years away, increasing the number of rocky…
TESS Just Found its First Earth-Sized World
NASA's new planet-hunting telescope, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), just found its first Earth-sized world. Though the Earth-sized planet, and…
TESS Finds its Third Planet, a sub-Neptune with a 36-Day Orbit
After only three months of operation, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) spacecraft is delivering on its mission to find…
Now that TESS is Operational, Astronomers Estimate it’ll Find 14,000 Planets. 10 Could Be Earthlike Worlds in a Sunlike Star’s Habitable Zone
How many exoplanets are there? Not that long ago, we didn't know if there were any. Then we detected a…
Carnival of Space #575
Welcome to the 575th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers,…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will Inspect the Atmospheres of Distant Gas Giants
When the James Webb Space Telescope is deployed, it will study and characterize the atmospheres of gas giants, with the…
How Many Planets is TESS Going to Find?
According to a new study, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is estimated to find over 4000 planets during its first…
Farewell Kepler. Welcome TESS
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral today, carrying NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite into space. This…