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[ad_1] The most recent NASA planetary hunter probably found his first planetand a few days later, his second. Astronomers await independent confirmation from other telescopes, but the glut of new planets could …

[ad_1] Jim Sharkey September 23, 2018 The exoplanet surveillance satellite in transit captured this band of stars and galaxies in the southern sky for a period of 30 minutes on August 7th. …

[ad_1] Just months after the start of its missions, NASA's brand new TESS spacecraft found two exciting exoplanet candidates. The first potential exoplanet is about twice as large as the Earth and …

[ad_1] NASA launched in April this year its exoplanet survey satellite, or simply TESS, to replace the endangered Kepler K2 spacecraft and examine more than 2,000 exoplanets found by Kepler K2 missions. …

[ad_1] The NASA SPACE: The NASA TESS telescope is looking for new planets (Pic: NASA) And the space agency said its Exoplanets in Transit (TESS) satellite could find more thousands in the …

[ad_1] In astronomy this week, TESS finds its first exoplanet – a super-Earth around the nearby star Pi Mensae – and astronomers have seen an asteroid hiding a galaxy to get details …

[ad_1] Somewhere among these grains of celestial sugar and puffs of cloudy powder, there is a planet, perhaps many planets, perhaps even Earth 2.0, which astronomers sometimes call the object of their …

[ad_1] Tess Holliday has a new fan she prefers to give up. The 33-year-old model has retreated after US columnist Piers Morgan wrote an article criticizing his weight for the second time …

[ad_1] A satellite observatory launched into space in April made its first images of distant galaxies, a promising sign as it begins to search for planets beyond the solar system. Consider this …

[ad_1] The new NASA planetary hunter is operational. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launched in April to search for extraterrestrial worlds orbiting stars relatively close to the sun, unveiled its first …