TESS @ MIT Joins the Activities at the Cambridge Science Carnival 2025
The Cambridge Science Carnival was held on Sunday Sept 21, where 140 vendors and educators hosted displays and booths outside…
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2025 NASA Red Sox STEM Day
The annual NASA Red Sox STEM day took place on June 4 at Fenway Park. An estimated 3,000+ students and…
TESS Discovers a World Disintegrating into a Comet-like Dust Tail
The TESS@MIT team announced the discovery of BD+ 05 4868 Ab, a planet orbiting a cool, Sun-like star only 140…
TESS at the Cambridge Science Festival
The annual Cambridge Science Festival was held this year from Sept 23 – 29, with the main event being the…
TESS Science Conference III – Registration now open!
Register by May 1 to receive discounted registration fee. The TESS Science conference III (TSC3; tsc.mit.edu, @TessSciCon3) will take place on July 29 –…
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…
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…