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NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS - a super-powerful orbiting telescope that scouts the sky for alien worlds - spotted a new planet circling a nearby star in the Hydra ...

Unsurprisingly given TESS’s wide range of view, a team of scientists have already identified the planet-hunting telescope’s first two exoplanet candidates. The yet-to-be-confirmed exoplanets ...

It takes 33 days for that star to complete an orbit around the central pair. TESS is a space telescope with four wide-angle cameras. As it orbits Earth, the spacecraft watches large sections of ...

TESS doesn’t have the optical resolution necessary to determine the planet’s diameter accurately. Now, a team of researchers used the veteran Hubble telescope to certify the world’s size ...

Related: Hubble telescope sees an angry star and an evaporating planet TESS discovered LTT 1445Ac by measuring this dip in light, but there was a problem. Scientists are very fortunate when they ...

Launched in April this year, TESS is all about observing small exoplanets with thin atmospheres like Earth. The Webb telescope will work alongside it to examine the atmospheres of some planets ...

NASA launched its most powerful planet-hunting telescope to date on April 18, but it's taken the spacecraft months of maneuvering to reach a crucial sweet spot. On July 25, TESS - short for ...

Tess will search for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits The US space agency is about to launch a telescope that should find thousands of planets beyond our Solar System.

Tess's goal is to compile a catalogue that other telescopes can then focus in on for more detailed analysis. "Tess is equipped with four very sensitive cameras that will enable it to monitor ...