TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant ...
techtimes

NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Mission TESS Pauses Science Observations—Why?

The team is investigating the cause of this interruption, which coincided with scheduled engineering activities. Despite this unforeseen pause, the satellite remains in optimal health, providing hope ...
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NASA's TESS Mission Finds Planetary System In New Way

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping ...
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NASA's TESS passes huge milestone for exoplanet observations

TESS's mission began in 2018, and its most recent addition to the TOI catalog comes mostly from the Faint Star Search, led by MIT postdoc Michelle Kunimoto. The objects of interest are exoplanets ...
Phys.org

TESS observations reveal sustained quasi-periodic oscillations in multiple blazars

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are a rare phenomenon in active galactic nuclei. They have been observed to occur at periods ranging from minutes to hours, days, weeks, and even years across the ...
SpaceNews

TESS Rounds Up Its First Planets, Snares Far-Flung Supernovae

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found three confirmed exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, in its first three months of observations. The mission’s sensitive cameras ...
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Machine learning helps astronomers find 10,000 new planet candidates in existing data

A huge haul of possible planets has been hiding in NASA data, waiting for scientists to look more closely at faint, flickering stars. In a new study, researchers reanalyzed the first year of ...
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NASA's TESS discovers planetary system’s second earth-size world

Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances ...
SpaceNews

TESS Completes Its Primary Mission

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. In capturing this giant mosaic, TESS ...