First Habitable-Zone, Earth-Sized Exoplanet Discovered With Planet-Hunter TESS
TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, was launched in 2018 with the goal of discovering small planets around the Sun’s nearest neighbors, stars bright enough…
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Highly Unusual “Hot Neptune” Exoplanet 260 Light Years Away That “Shouldn’t Exist”
A team led by an astronomer from the University of Kansas has crunched data from NASA’s TESS and Spitzer space telescopes to portray for the…
NASA’s Planet Hunter TESS Creates a Cosmic Vista of the Northern Sky – Imaged 75% of the Sky So Far
Familiar stars shine, nebulae glow, and nearby galaxies tantalize in a new panorama of the northern sky assembled from 208 pictures captured by NASA’s Transiting…
NASA’s TESS Creates a Cosmic Vista of the Northern Sky [Video]
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) spent nearly a year imaging the northern sky in its search for worlds beyond our solar system. Explore this…
Hunt the Skies for New Worlds Beyond Our Solar System From Home With NASA’s Planet Patrol
Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol. This citizen science platform allows members of the…
First Possible “Survivor” Planet Discovered by NASA Next to a Stellar Cinder
The violent events leading up to the death of a star would likely drive away any planets. The newly discovered Jupiter-size object may have arrived…
NASA’s TESS – The Space Agency’s “Planet Hunter” – Completes Its Primary Mission With “Roaring Success”
On July 4, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) finished its primary mission, imaging about 75% of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long…
MIT Makes Their Own Lava, Discovers Lava Oceans May Not Explain Brightness of Some Hot Super-Earths
By making their own lava and cooled glass, scientists find these materials likely aren’t responsible for the unexpected glow of some exoplanets. Arguably some of…
World Discovered Orbiting a Unique Young Star Provides Astronomers With a One-of-Kind Laboratory
The newly discovered planet’s parent star is still encircled by the disk of material from which both objects formed, giving scientists a glimpse at early…
TESS Mission Discovers “Really Unusual” Exoplanet That May Be the Remnant Core of a Giant Planet
Neptune-sized planet may be remnant core of a much larger planet. The “ice giant” planets Neptune and Uranus are much less dense than rocky, terrestrial…
NASA’s TESS Investigates Strange Ultrahot World – “The Weirdness Factor Is High With KELT-9 b”
Measurements from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of…
Mysterious Delta Scuti Stars Start to Surrender Astrophysical Secrets
The key to unlocking the secrets of a large group of pulsating stars has been discovered by an international team of astrophysicists. Pulsations are a…
New Detectability Index Aids Search for Extraterrestrial Life on Exoplanets
Whether there is life elsewhere in the universe is a question people have pondered for millennia, and within the last few decades, great strides have…
Perplexing Stellar Pulsations: Regular Rhythms Discovered in Mysterious Pulsating Stars
Astronomers have detected elusive pulsation patterns in dozens of young, rapidly rotating stars thanks to data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The discovery…
For the First Time Astronomers Identify a Rhythm of Life in Pulsating Stars
Through the noise, a class of stars reveals its inner workings; poor ‘social distancing’ identified using NASA space telescope. By listening to the beating hearts…
How Earth Climate Models Help NASA Scientists Picture Life on Unimaginable Worlds
In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks…
One-Sided Pulsator: New Type of Pulsating Star Discovered After 40-Year Search
A star that pulses on just one side has been predicted in theory. But it took two simultaneous discoveries on opposite sides of our planet…
Real-Life Star Wars: Two New ‘Tatooine’ Planetary Systems Pinpointed by Astronomers [Video]
Astronomers announced Monday (January 6, 2020) the first discovery made by NASA’s TESS mission of a two-star planetary system. Led by researchers at NASA’s Goddard…