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NASA's exoplanet hunter TESS spots a record-breaking 3-star system
Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), scientists have spotted a record-breaking triple-star system so tightly bound that it could fit ...
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NASA's planet-hunter TESS temporarily shuts off
April 11 (UPI) --NASA's eye in the sky has unexpectedly shut off, temporarily interrupting its survey of space. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, which has been searching for ...
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NASA's TESS is going to be your new favorite space mission
On April 16, NASA's latest and greatest mission is set to launch to space. The new space telescope is named TESS -- short for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite -- and it has a pretty ...
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SpaceX launches planet-hunting TESS to space before landing rocket back on Earth
Have fun in space, TESS! Our favorite new NASA mission -- called TESS, short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite -- launched to space at 6:51 p.m. ET on Wednesday, and the first stage of the ...
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Exoplanet Hunters See World Disintegrating
Using NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered the fastest disintegrating planet ever seen. The planet is crumbling so fast due to bombardment ...
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NASA Fast Facts
There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...
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NASA's biggest-ever hunt for alien planets is finally underway - and the agency expects to discover 'strange, fantastic worlds'
NASA launched its most powerful planet-hunting telescope to date on April 18, but it's taken the spacecraft months of maneuvering to reach a crucial sweet spot. On July 25, TESS - short for ...
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NASA picks SpaceX to launch Pandora exoplanet mission
Pandora won't be the first NASA exoplanet probe that SpaceX launches. The agency's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) lifted off atop a Falcon 9 in April 2018.
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Robbie Schingler
where he helped build the Small Spacecraft Office at NASA Ames and was Capture Manager for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Robbie later served as NASA’s Open Government ...
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Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable world just 31 light-years away, thanks to NASA's planet-hunting telescope
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS - a super-powerful orbiting telescope that scouts the sky for alien worlds - spotted a new planet circling a nearby star in the Hydra ...
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NASA Taps VR for Lunar Science Prep
Tess Caswell, a stand-in crew member for the Artemis III Virtual Reality Mini-Simulation, executes a moonwalk in the Prototype Immersive Technology ...