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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket transporting the Tess satellite lifts off from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla.(Photo: AP)

NASA's Tess spacecraft embarks on quest to find new planets

The satellite the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or Tess will scan almost the entire sky for at least two...

20 April 2018 9:42 AM IST

This Nasa handout artists rendition shows the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a Nasa Explorer mission launching in 2018 to study exoplanets, or planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. (Photo: AFP)

Nasa's new planet-hunter to seek closer, Earth-like worlds

TESS is designed as a follow-on to the US space agency's Kepler spacecraft, which was the first of its kind and launched...

17 April 2018 12:08 AM IST

NASAs latest space-bound astrophysics instrument will be carried aloft by a Falcon 9 rocket from the fleet of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musks private launch service, Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX.

NASA's newest planet-hunting spacecraft set for launch in Florida

A new NASA satellite will detect more Earth-like worlds around stars beyond our solar system.

16 April 2018 4:51 PM IST

TESS Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (Photo: NASA)

NASA's planet-hunting probe completes lunar flyby

As part of camera commissioning, the science team snapped a two-second test exposure using one of the four TESS cameras.

20 May 2018 2:57 PM IST

TESS is designed to build on the work of its predecessor, the Kepler space telescope.

NASA telescope discovers two new planets five months after launch

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, better known as TESS, made an early discovery of super-Earthâ€ and hot...

21 Sept 2018 12:15 PM IST