TESS, NASA’s Next-Gen Planet Hunter, is Already Delivering
Discover Magazine - Fri 21 Sep 18NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched April 18, headed for an orbit that takes it out to about the distance of the Moon at its apogee. Just a few weeks later, it began ...
TESS shares first science image in hunt to find new worlds
Phys.org - Mon 17 Sep 18NASA's newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now providing valuable data to help scientists discover and study exciting new exoplanets, or planets beyond ...
TESS Shares First Science Image in Hunt to Find New Worlds, SpaceDaily - Tue 18 Sep 18New Planet-Hunting Space Telescope is Already Finding New Worlds
Discover Magazine - Fri 14 Sep 18In just six weeks of science observations, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has already found 50 possible new worlds for scientists to examine. TESS finds planets by watching ...
NASA’s Exoplanet Hunter Shares First Starry Images
Geek.com - Mon 24 Sep 18NASA’s planet hunter TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has begun providing data on planets beyond our Solar System. The dossier collected from TESS’ initial orbit includes ...
NASA’s newest planet hunter has already found two potential exoplanets
Popular Science - Fri 21 Sep 18Space And TESS is just getting started. Less than two months after TESS started its science operations, astronomers have detected two brand-new exoplanet candidates.
NASA telescope discovers TWO new planets, including a 'hot-Earth' 49 light years away
Daily Mail - Fri 21 Sep 18A planet-hunting orbital telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system discovered two distant planets this week five months after its launch.
NASA telescope discovers two new planets five months after launch
Reuters - Thu 20 Sep 18A planet-hunting orbital telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system discovered two distant planets this week five months after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, officials ...
NASA's TESS telescope just discovered two new Earth-like planets - CNET
CNET - Thu 20 Sep 18The planet hunter has detected a "super-Earth" and a "hot Earth" less than 60 light years away.
NASA's New Planet Hunter Just Found Its 1st Alien World — an Evaporating 'Super-Earth'
SPACE.com - Wed 19 Sep 18NASA's TESS spacecraft has detected its first alien world — a "super-Earth" that is likely evaporating under the heat from its star, a new study reports.
NASA's New Planet-Hunter TESS Beams 'First Light' Image to Earth
SPACE.com - Wed 19 Sep 18NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which launched in April to search for alien worlds orbiting stars relatively close to the sun, has beamed home its first science image.
NASA's planet-hunting TESS spacecraft captures 'first light' image
Engadget - Tue 18 Sep 18Back in May, one of the cameras on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) snapped a two-second test exposure to make sure that it works. It was but a taste of what ...
NASA unveils first images from TESS probe's alien planet hunting quest
FOXNews - Tue 18 Sep 18NASA has unveiled the first images from its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), its $337 million alien-planet hunting satellite and the results are nothing short of incredible.
NASA's new planet hunting satellite shares 'first light' photo of space - CNET
CNET - Mon 17 Sep 18Four cameras, billions of stars. The first image from NASA's TESS is stellar.
NASA shares stunning 'first light' image from new TESS spacecraft
Daily Mail - Mon 17 Sep 18The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) snapped a photo using its four wide-field cameras on August 7, nearly four months after it blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
Stars, galaxies, and more: TESS explores the southern sky
Astronomy.com - Wed 19 Sep 18First light from NASA’s next-generation planet hunter proves it’s up to the task ahead.
NASA’s TESS Shares First Science Image in Hunt to Find New Worlds
Astrobiology Magazine - Tue 18 Sep 18NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now providing valuable data to help scientists discover and study exciting new exoplanets.
NASA's TESS shares first science image in hunt to find new worlds, ScienceDaily - Mon 17 Sep 18NASA's TESS shares first science image in hunt to find new worlds, Eurekalert - Mon 17 Sep 18
TESS's first science image features the Southern Sky
UPI - Tue 18 Sep 18TESS has produced its 'first light' science image. The image, captured during its initial science orbit, features thousands of stars in the Southern Sky.
Exoplanet-hunting TESS returns first images
optics.org - Tue 18 Sep 18'First light' for satellite telescope launched earlier this year as multi-camera payload captures view of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
TESS begins the hunt for rocky worlds
Astronomy.com - Fri 14 Sep 18NASA’s newest planet-hunting spacecraft finds 50 candidate worlds during first survey