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TESS monitors millions of stars for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits. This first-ever spaceborne all-sky transit survey has identified planets of all sizes.

Nov 20, 2025 · NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) completed its two-year primary mission and continues its search for new worlds. Learn about some of TESS’s most interesting …

TESS is designed to carry out the first spaceborne all-sky transiting exoplanet survey. [18][30] It is equipped with four wide-angle telescopes and associated charge-coupled device (CCD) detectors. …

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is a NASA mission to discover Earth-size worlds around nearby stars. Promising planets found by TESS will be studied by future telescopes to …

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an Explorer-class planet finder. In the first-ever spaceborne all-sky transit survey, TESS will identify planets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, …

Oct 19, 2025 · TESS, short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is a space telescope launched by NASA in April 2018 with the primary goal of discovering exoplanets orbiting bright stars in the solar …

TESS Mission The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an MIT-led NASA mission designed to discover transiting exoplanets by an all-sky survey. TESS surveys the entire sky searching for …

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will conduct a special observation of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in January 2026, temporarily interrupting Sector 99 to capture this rare opportunity to …

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an MIT-led NASA mission designed to discover transiting exoplanets by an all-sky survey. TESS has four identical, highly optimized, red-sensitive, …