Tag: TESS
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Apr 19, 2018NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched on the first-of-its-kind mission to find worlds beyond our solar system, including some that could support life. -
Apr 15, 2018Step outside on a clear night, and you can be sure of something our ancestors could only imagine: Every star you see likely plays host to at least one planet. -
Apr 13, 2018NASA’s next mission to continue the search for Earth-like worlds is ready to blast off. -
Mar 30, 2018NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is undergoing final preparations in Florida for its April 16 launch to find undiscovered worlds around nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life. -
Mar 15, 2018Trailing Earth’s orbit at 94 million miles away, the Kepler space telescope has survived many potential knock-outs during its nine years in flight, from mechanical failures to being blasted by cosmic rays. -
Feb 19, 2018NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will identify exoplanets orbiting the brightest stars just outside our solar system. -
Apr 28, 2017Scientists discuss options for finding life outside our solar system. -
Dec 3, 2016Same class of algorithms used by Google and Netflix can also tell us if distant planetary systems are stable or not. -
Oct 6, 2016NASA's search for planets outside of our solar system has mostly involved very distant, faint stars. NASA’s upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), by contrast, will look at the brightest stars in our solar neighborhood. -
Jun 20, 2016The zone where life might exist around M-dwarfs might be narrower than previously thought.
