TESS

NASA's TESS exoplanet mission widens its search to include alien life

Posted in Science on 25th Oct, 2019
by Alex Muller

“We’re looking forward to working together as we try to answer one of the most profound questions about our place in the Universe: Are we alone?”

NASA's next-gen exoplanet hunter gets to work

Posted in Science on 28th Jul, 2018
by Alex Muller

On July 25, the unmanned Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) got to work on its two-year whole-sky survey to seek out planets outside our solar system.

SpaceX finally Falcon flings NASA's TESS into orbit

Posted in Hardware on 20th Apr, 2018
by Alex Muller

The Booster hurled the probe and sat down on the boat in the Atlantic

Delay for Nasa's TESS planet-hunting space telescope

Posted in Hardware on 17th Apr, 2018
by Alex Muller

The launch of Nasa's Tess planet-hunter has been postponed and it will not now lift off until Wednesday at the earliest.

Exoplanet space telescope will launch in December 2017

Posted in Science on 30th Nov, 2016
by Alex Muller

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a planned space telescope for NASA's Explorers program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method.