Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

Astronomers find new way to hunt the elusive Planet 9 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 29, 2020
Finding Planet Nine may require looking at telescope images in a different light.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Planet Hunter Completes Its Primary Mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 13, 2020
On July 4, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) finished its primary mission, imaging about 75% of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long survey.

By David Aragorn
Finding extraterrestrial life ‘probably going to take a long time,’ astronomer says 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 6, 2019
If you had hopes of finding E.T. anytime soon, one astronomer is about to burst your bubble.

By David Aragorn
NASA finds three alien planets, including the ‘missing link’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 31, 2019
If a planet with three suns isn’t your thing, what about a sun with three planets?

By David Aragorn
NASA telescope discovers two new planets five months after launch 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2018
A planet-hunting orbital telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system discovered two distant planets this week five months after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, officials said on Thursday.

By David Aragorn
The TESS space telescope has spotted its first exoplanet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 20, 2018
Pi Men c’s size and mass suggest it may have lots of water

By David Aragorn
TESS Spots Comet C/2018 N1 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 8, 2018
Before NASA’s newest planet-hunter TESS started science operations on July 25, the spacecraft sent back a series of images showing the motion of C/2018 N1, a comet recently discovered by the agency’s NEOWISE satellite.

By David Aragorn
Nasa to launch Tess on hunt for 20,000 new worlds 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 18, 2018
Telescope hitching ride on a SpaceX rocket designed to spot alien worlds

By David Aragorn
NASA’s incredible exoplanet-hunting telescope is about to launch 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 16, 2018
TESS will give us a new view of our galactic neighborhood.

By David Aragorn
Kepler spacecraft nearing the end as fuel runs low 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 15, 2018
Trailing Earth’s orbit at 94 million miles away, the Kepler space telescope has survived many potential knock-outs during its nine years in flight, from mechanical failures to being blasted by cosmic rays. At this rate, the hardy spacecraft may reach its finish line in a manner we will consider a wonderful success. With nary a gas station to be found in deep space, the spacecraft is going to run out of fuel. We expect to reach that moment within several months.

By David Aragorn