Tess

NASA's TESS completes its two year primary mission; begins extended journey

TESS had spotted 66 confirmed exoplanets during the primary mission and there are over 2100 celestial bodies.

Neptune-like exoplanet, two temperate super-Earths found orbiting nearby stars

The potentially-habitable planets are fairly close to their suns, making them prime targets for next-gen telescopes.

NASA intern Wolf Cukier helps TESS find an exoplanet, TOI 1338 b, orbiting two stars

TOI 1388b is orbiting two stars in a constellation called the Pictor, which is situated nearly 1,300 lightyears from the Earth.

Exoplanet hunting telescope TESS finds first Earth-size planet with habitable conditions

TESS discovered three exoplanets in total, TOI 700 b, c and d, revolving around its star TOI 700.

NASA loses contact with tiny exoplanet hunter ASTERIA two years since its launch

NASA's JPL will continue to make attempts to get in touch with the CubeSat till March 2020.

NASA joins SETI in the search for alien life on habitable exoplanets in the universe

TESS teamed up with Breakthrough Listen, an extraterrestrial intelligence search founded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.

Black hole rips apart a star, scientists managed to snag a look at the violent event

NASA's TESS showed that the star was eventually sucked into oblivion in a rare cosmic occurrence.

NASA's space telescopes help identify Earth-like exoplanet 48.6 light-years away

The exoplanet is 1.3 times larger than Earth and is locked in a tight orbit around a small, relatively cool star.

NASA's TESS discovers a super-Earth 31 light-years away, could harbour life

The exoplanet is more massive than our own blue planet and is located outside the solar system.

NASA's TESS planet-hunter discovers first Earth-sized exoplanet 53 light-years away

The exoplanet is about 23 times the Earth's mass, while the host star is 80% our Sun's mass.