TESS Stories
Editor’s Note, Jan. 13, 2026: Mission controllers received full acquisition of signal from the Pandora spacecraft on Sunday, Jan. 11. Pandora will now begin a month of commissioning before starting science operations. Editor’s Note, Jan. 11, 2026: NASA’s Pandora and…
Astronomers have revolutionized our understanding of a collection of stars in the northern sky called the Pleiades. They used data from NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and other observatories as NASA explores the secrets of the universe for the…
The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added…