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 ...
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 ...
Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...
TESS has become an extraordinary exoplanet hunter ... However, if there are more planets in the system, they are unlikely to be within the orbit of TOI-1408 c. "There are hints that there might ...
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 ...
On July 25, TESS - short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - finally slipped into a unique orbit between Earth and the moon. The telescope is now starting to scan 85% of the night sky ...
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 ...