NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission took its first image during a dramatic lunar flyby this week. On May 17, the next-generation planet hunter passed within 5,000 miles (8,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA TESS spacecraft has been in space for almost a year now, and it powerful imaging tools are definitely being put to work. As ...

NASA's TESS exoplanet hunting telescope has been on the job for less than a year, but it's already racking up some impressive discoveries. Following the announcement of a new "Hot Saturn" back in ...

Initially slated for a two-year mission, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) soars in an elliptical, 13.7-day cycle around the Earth. It’s a unique and extreme orbit that’s never been ...

NASA's planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is back in action, searching for worlds beyond the solar system's limits. TESS came out of "safe mode" on May 3, resuming its search ...

This week we’re teaming up with TESS. NASA’s long-awaited Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite was launched by a SpaceX rocket last month and now is settling into orbit around Earth. A ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's newest planet-hunting powerhouse, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), leaped into orbit Wednesday evening (April 18) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. TESS ...

In 1995, astronomers discovered the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star. Ten years later, exoplanet research remained in its infancy. Researchers still weren’t sure whether planets ...