TESS

NASA's planet-hunting mission is in safe mode after a computer glitch hit the spacecraft on Monday (Oct. 10).NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission launched in 2018 to survey the sky looking for exoplanets. TESS was…

Artist’s conception of the 30 Ari star system. The system is composed of four stars. Credit: Art by Karen Teramura, UH IfA <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="NASAEstablished in…

Floating in a stream of young stars, astronomers have spotted a trio of neighboring planets similar to Earth, orbiting a much younger version of our own sun.  The team found the young, hot worlds using observations from NASA's…