An exoplanet candidate found orbiting a star six light years away from our planet has just been declared by scientists an exoplanet, and it’s called Barnard b. Back in November 2018, researchers... Read more »
The Kepler Space Telescope is sleeping and not expected to wake up since it’s out of fuel. However, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or as we all know it – TESS, is... Read more »
NASA’s new exoplanet hunter called TESS – the abbreviation for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite – is pretty good at discovering alien planets outside our solar system. We call them exoplanets, and scientists... Read more »
The leader of the TESS mission, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager had an exciting announcement. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has successfully started its operations and already found two new exoplanet candidates,... Read more »
TESS, the Transitioning Exoplanet Survey Satellite was launched this year in April, aboard of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It reached the orbit, successfully completed tests and even sent awesome images to... Read more »
Guess who’s up and running again? NASA has announced on 5 September that their old planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, is now awake from its hibernation and sessions of repair, ready to scan the... Read more »
The new space telescope TESS has started its job a few days ago and while preparing to scan for planets outside our solar system, it spotted a comet passing by. It was... Read more »
It’s been a while since NASA launched TESS, which stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. But before getting ready to officially begin looking for planets outside our solar system, TESS had to... Read more »