TESS

The TESS team will be at AAS in January 2020! If you are also attending, and you plan to present TESS results that you think would be of broad interest to the public, please submit a media request. We would love to showcase as many TESS results as possible, but ...

After TESS completes its 2-year prime mission in July 2020, TESS will officially be continuing operations as part of an extended mission! TESS will continue scanning the sky in the extended mission for transiting exoplanets and other transients. As part of this extended mission, Guest Investigator proposals will continue to ...

TESS has been successfully conducting observations in the northern ecliptic hemisphere since July 18th. As previously announced, the field-of-view of the TESS camera array was shifted north by 31° with respect to its nominal pointing in Sectors 14 and 15 in order to reduce the impact of scattered light from ...

TESS has officially completed its survey of the southern sky, observing thirteen sectors in the southern ecliptic hemisphere between July 2018 and July 2019. All of the Cycle 1 data are now publicly available at MAST. Details of the available data can be found at the MAST site.

TESS will observe the northern ecliptic hemisphere during the second year of its primary mission. The cameras will be oriented along a line of ecliptic longitude (as they were in Year 1), with that longitude determined by the anti-solar longitude at the mid-point of the sector. For most of Year ...