One of those oddities is the stellar trio, where two stars orbit each other and then a third star orbits the other two. A ...

Unlike other exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, TESS is perfectly equipped to locate Earth-sized planets circling stars in the "habitable zone" -- the part of a star's orbit where liquid water could be ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

The discovery happened after TESS observed cosmic "strobe lights ... is so tight that it can fit inside that of Mercury’s orbit around our Sun. This has meant that no planet was able to ...

Scientists have detected a potential exoplanet using an unusual method — tracking shifts in another planet’s orbit. The hot Jupiter TOI-2818b was found to have an unexpected timing variation, hinting ...

The six exoplanets orbit HD 110067, a fairly bright star in the Coma Berenices constellation, visible from Earth with a telescope. Astronomers using a NASA space telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet ...

We have only been able to comprehensively characterize the atmospheres of a handful of transiting planets, because most orbit faint stars. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will ...