TESS

After completing commissioning and initiating science data collection on July 25th, NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, has now completed its first two 27-day science observation sectors and has begun delivering its wealth of data to the ground. The TESS data are being passed through the ...

A Special Session "TESS: Early Results and Future Plans” is scheduled for Tuesday, 8 January, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM at the winter AAS meeting in Seattle, WA.

The deadline for regular abstract submission of the 233rd AAS meeting to Wednesday, 10 October (9:00 pm ET). The session ...

The TESS Guest Investigator Program Cycle 2 deadline is being pushed back to February 2019. At this time we will be soliciting programs that target Northern Ecliptic Hemisphere fields. The NSPIRES page is in the process of being updated. With the first release data planned for before the end of ...

Targets selected for observations as part of the TESS GI program in Sector 3 are now available. The full list and targets for individual programs is available from the Approved Programs page.

After a successful launch on April 18, 2018, and a series of on-orbit commissioning tasks, NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, has completed its first 27-day science observation sector, and has delivered its wealth of data to the ground. TESS is now pointed at the sky ...