TESS Celebrates its Fifth “Launchiversary”
It’s been five years since TESS launched in 2018. The tiny, mighty spacecraft now has a legacy of thousands of…
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TESS begins its second extended mission
Today marks the start of the fifth year of TESS science observations and the second extended mission for the exoplanet-finder….
TESS Science Office at MIT hits milestone of 5,000 exoplanet candidates
The catalog of planet candidates found with NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), just passed 5,000 TOIs, or TESS Objects…
TOI Catalog Now Includes the Detection Pipeline for Each Candidate
The TESS Objects of Interest catalog now has a new column, “Detection.” This column lists the data analysis pipeline which…
9.1 million light curves released from QLP for TESS Extended Mission Year 1
The Quick Look Pipeline (QLP) team at MIT has released over 9.1 million light curves in the third High-Level Science…
40 TOIs from TESS Sector 40
Kicking off the fourth year of TESS science operations, the TESS Science Office released forty new TESS Objects of Interest…
Over 2,200 TOIs in Prime Mission Catalog
View full article here By Pat Brennan (NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program) The news is out of this world: NASA’s TESS…
TESS Stands Against Racism
To everyone in the TESS collaboration, throughout the world: The past few days, weeks, and months have not been easy…
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…
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…