NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunting telescope has been on the job for less than a year, but it’s already racking up some impressive discoveries. Following the announcement of a new “Hot Saturn” back in ...

Last October, NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope took its final bow after uncovering over 2,600 alien worlds during almost a decade in space. But that doesn’t mean the search for exoplanets ...

NASA TESS spacecraft has been in space for almost a year now, and it powerful imaging tools are definitely being put to work. As we saw with last year’s first batch of snapshots from NASA, TESS is ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's newest planet-hunting powerhouse, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), leaped into orbit Wednesday evening (April 18) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. TESS ...

This week we’re teaming up with TESS. NASA’s long-awaited Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite was launched by a SpaceX rocket last month and now is settling into orbit around Earth. A ...

At the moment when NASA's newest planet hunter launches, scheduled for Monday evening, astronomers will know of nearly 4,000 alien worlds outside our solar system. When the Transiting Exoplanet Survey ...

A hot gas giant exoplanet around a star with stellar oscillations NASA’s planet-hunting satellite, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), was launched last year to search for exoplanets — ...

"Definitely a ten out of ten excitement from me. The potential of discovering something like a rogue world drifting in the darkness of interstellar space is just incredible." When you purchase through ...

In 1995, astronomers discovered the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star. Ten years later, exoplanet research remained in its infancy. Researchers still weren’t sure whether planets ...

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission took its first image during a dramatic lunar flyby this week. On May 17, the next-generation planet hunter passed within 5,000 miles (8,000 ...