The joint NASA / Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, has completed its first science orbit after launch and orbital activations/checkouts. 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 are located 59.5 light years from Earth in the Pi Mensae system and 49 light years away in the LHS 3844 system.
The CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) spacecraft has completed integration work at Airbus’ Madrid-Barajas site and is…
SpaceX has launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS – with the launch on…
Next month, SpaceX is set to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is…
NASA has announced the discovery of a planetary system around star K2-138. The discovery was…
As 2017 comes to a close, it does so in the realm of exoplanet research…
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Astronomers have found evidence for a volcanic moon orbiting an exoplanet 635 light-years from Earth.…
Astronomers have found more than 350 possible moons around asteroids by analyzing data from the…
Using the joint NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) James Webb…
The combined Ariane 6 launcher task force, consisting of ESA, CNES, and ArianeGroup, has reported…
After a record-setting month featuring 10 launches, SpaceX is gearing up for a busy February.…
30 years ago, on the very early morning of Dec. 2, 1993, the Space Shuttle…
Using the joint NASA, European Space Agency, and Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope,…
NASA and SpaceX teams launched the agency’s Psyche mission to metallic asteroid 16 Psyche from…
Using the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, a team of…
On July 12, 2022, five groups of scientists gathered in different agencies across the world…
Using the California Institute of Technology’s (Caltech) Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and NASA’s Near-Earth Object…
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft recently arrived in French…
NASA and Johns Hopkins teams have successfully tested the world’s first dedicated planetary defense mission:…
