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...
Read More 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...
Read More 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 valuable…
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...
Read More NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Starts Science Operations
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has started its search for planets around nearby stars, officially beginning science operations on…
NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Continues Testing Prior to First Observations
After a successful launch on April 18, 2018, NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is currently…
NASA’s New Planet Hunter Snaps Initial Image, Swings by Moon Toward Final Orbit
An artist’s illustration of TESS as it passed the Moon during its lunar flyby. This provided a gravitational boost that...
Read More TESS Launches
MIT and NASA make history with the next generation of exoplanet- hunting satellites. TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) launched on...
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