Hubble reveals egg-shaped exoplanet so hot it's venting vaporized iron into space

Between exoplanets with ruby clouds and those that are actually just giant diamonds, science fiction has barely prepared us for just how weird alien worlds could be. Now, thanks to new ...

Astronomers are probing faraway planets with greater sophistication

And a new science is emerging

Three “Missing-Link” Planets Were Discovered Circling a Nearby Star by the New TESS Spacecraft

A satellite has triplets

NASA’s exoplanet hunter has spotted three new worlds in a nearby solar system

TESS has found the first-ever ‘ultrahot Neptune’

NASA’s TESS telescope has spotted a world that could be a bridge between other types of exoplanets: hot Jupiters and scorched Earths.

Three newly discovered exoplanets orbit a star 73 light years away

Three new planets, which orbit a star situated 73 light years away from Earth, have been found. The trio are among the smallest and nearest exoplanets known to date

TESS discovers three new planets of interest

Planetary system orbiting unusually quiet star is ideal for habitability searches, astronomers say.

NASA's TESS mission finds 'missing link' planets

NASA's newest planet-hunting satellite has discovered a type of planet missing from our own solar system.

Planet hunters just spotted a new super-Earth that could support life - CNET

NASA's TESS telescope helps find an exoplanet that may contain liquid water.

TESS Finds Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Just 31 Light Years Away

The solar system known as GJ 357 hosts not one but three exoplanets. What's more, one of those planets is a super-Earth in the habitable region of the star.  The ...

Nearby 'Super-Earth' may be habitable, NASA suggests

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has made several discoveries in recent days, including a planet with three suns and a sun with three planets. But the latest discovery may be ...

This Gassy 'Preteen' Exoplanet With 2 Suns Is Losing Its Atmosphere. But Why?

The discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a young star could provide new information on planet formation.

NASA’s newest planet-hunting satellite finds three new worlds

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, a planet-seeking satellite that launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last April, has found three new worlds that orbit a nearby dwarf ...

NASA finds three alien planets, including the 'missing link'

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found a star, known as "TESS Object of Interest 270," or TOI 270, 73 light-years away from Earth that has three exoplanets orbiting it, ...

NASA’s TESS Spots 3 New Exoplanets in Rare Solar System

The super-Earth is scorching hot, and the others are cooler. However, they're not ice worlds like Neptune.   The post NASA’s TESS Spots 3 New Exoplanets ...

TESS hits the trifecta: Nearby bright star has 3 interesting planets

System is great to figure out planets' masses, study their composition.

NASA telescope discovers three intriguing planets hiding around nearby star - CNET

NASA's TESS mission found a super-Earth and two sub-Neptunes in our cosmic neighborhood.

NASA’s TESS Mission Discovers Three New Planets, Including ‘Oven-Hot’ World and ‘Mini-Neptunes’

Infographic illustrates key features of the TOI 270 system, discovered by NASA’s TESS. Insets show information about the planets, including their relative sizes, ...

NASA's TESS Telescope Spots 2 'Missing Link' Exoplanets (and a Super Earth, Too!)

NASA's newest planet hunter has bagged three more trophies, two of which may help scientists better understand how worlds form and evolve.

TESS telescope discovers three intriguing close-by exoplanets

The solar system is very different from our own.

Confirmation of toasty TESS planet leads to surprising find of promising world

A piping hot planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the way to additional worlds orbiting the same star, one of which is located in the star's habitable ...

TESS finds 'missing link' planets

Riverside CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2019 NASA's newest planet-hunting satellite has discovered a type of planet missing from our own solar system. Launched in 2018, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey ...

Discovery of young planet around bright star sheds light on planet formation

Hanover NH (SPX) Jul 30, 2019 Researchers at Dartmouth College have discovered a planet orbiting one of the brightest young stars known, according to a study published in the journal The ...

Planetary system around quiet star ideal for habitability searches

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, has discovered three new worlds that are among the smallest, nearest exoplanets known to date. The planets orbit a star just 73 light-years ...

TESS mission scores a 'hat trick' with three new worlds

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 30, 2019 NASA's newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has discovered three new worlds - one slightly larger than Earth and two of ...

TESS discovers three new planets nearby, including temperate 'sub-Neptune'

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, has discovered three new worlds that are among the smallest, nearest exoplanets known to date. ...

NASA's TESS mission scores 'hat trick' with 3 new worlds

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has found 3 new worlds in a system that promises to be among the most important targets for future studies.