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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.