Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Tess

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  Astronomers Spot Two Earth-Like Planets in a Nearby Multiplanet System

  In a significant discovery, astronomers have spotted one of the closest known multiplanet systems located within our galactic neighbourhood. The system is about 10 parsecs or 33 light-years from Earth and was identified by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).

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  NASA's Planet Hunting Telescope Joins Search for Intelligent Aliens

  Scientists working on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have teamed up with Breakthrough Listen, an extraterrestrial intelligence search founded in 2015 by Russian billionaire and internet pioneer Yuri Milner.

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  NASA Exoplanet Hunter TESS Finds Earth-Size Planet

  NASA's new exoplanet hunter Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size world.

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  NASA Probe Discovers Third New Planet Outside Solar System

  NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a third small planet outside our solar system, scientists report.

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  NASA Bids Goodbye To Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope

  NASA has decided to retire its Kepler space telescope that discovered more than 2,600 planets and ran out of fuel needed for further science operations.

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  NASA's Newest Planet Hunter Telescope Shares First Science Image

  NASA's newest planet hunter telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has now shared the first science image that it captured as part of its initial round of data collection.

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  New "Planet Hunter" Starts Scouring For "New Worlds"

  After a successful launch in April this year, NASA's newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has now started its search for planets around nearby stars.

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  SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Successfully Launches NASA's TESS Planet Hunting Telescope

  NASA's Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, lifted off on schedule from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:51pm EDT on Wednesday (4:21am IST on Thursday).

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  SpaceX Rocket Launched From Florida Carrying NASA Planet-Hunting Telescope

  A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on Wednesday on SpaceX's first high-priority science mission for NASA, a planet-hunting space telescope whose launch was delayed for two days by a rocket-guidance glitch.

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  Falcon 9 Glitch Postpones SpaceX's Launch of NASA's Planet-Hunting Satellite TESS

  SpaceX halted the countdown a little more than two hours before its Falcon 9 rocket had been scheduled to carry the Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, into orbit.