The music of the spheres
MIT hosts “Songs from Extrasolar Spaces,” a musical melding of art and science inspired by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite…
NASA’s TESS Helps Find Intriguing New World
Originally published on July 31, 2019 A piping hot planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed...
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NASA Extends the TESS Mission through 2022
The following is an excerpt from the NASA article written on July 17, 2019: NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) periodically...
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NASA’s TESS Discovers its First Earth-size Planet
Originally published on April 15, 2019 NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size world. The planet,…
NASA’s TESS Rounds Up its First Planets, Snares Far-flung Supernovae
Originally published on January 7, 2019 NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found three confirmed exoplanets, or worlds beyond…
Preliminary Target Pixel Files from TESS Object of Interest Alerts Now Public at MAST
Click here to view the data at MAST After completing commissioning and initiating science data collection on July 25th, NASA’s…
NASA’s TESS Shares First Science Image in Hunt to Find New Worlds
Download TESS first light multimedia here NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now providing…
NASA’s TESS Mission Completes First Science Observation Sector
After a successful launch on April 18, 2018, and a series of on-orbit commissioning tasks, NASA’s newest planet hunter,…
Catching a Comet: How the TESS Science Office found C/2018 N1
by Natalia Guerrero, TESS Science Office In a series of full-frame images taken over the course of 17 hours, a…
NASA’s Planet-Hunting TESS Catches a Comet Before Starting Science
Before NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) started science operations on July 25, 2018, the planet hunter sent back...
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