NASA Investigates an “Old Faithful” Active Galaxy That Erupts Every 114 Days
During a typical year, over a million people visit Yellowstone National Park, where the Old Faithful geyser regularly blasts a jet of boiling water high in…
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TESS Research Updates: Hunting for Worlds Beyond Our Solar System
At the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) held last month, MIT researchers presented new data from programs such as the Transiting Exoplanet…
Newly Discovered Planetary System Offers Glimpse Into How Planets Evolve
A newly discovered planetary system will provide researchers with the rare chance to study a group of growing planets, according to research co-led by Dartmouth….
New Worlds in a River of Young Stars Discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a trio of hot worlds larger than Earth orbiting…
Four New Exoplanets Orbiting a Nearby Sun-Like Star Discovered by TESS
MIT-led NASA mission finds a multi-planetary system that could be an “ideal laboratory” to study planetary formation and evolution. MIT researchers have discovered four new…
Swift, TESS Catch Eruptions from an Active Galaxy [Video]
Using data from facilities including NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), scientists have studied 20 instances and counting of regular…
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…
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…