Welcome TESS followers to our latest news bulletin!¹

This week, we are looking at three recent papers from the archive. These papers cover recent work in stellar activity, asteroid detection, and planet discovery. Enjoy!

First, astronomers are investigating a cosmic mystery involving small, incredibly fast-spinning stars that surprisingly produce ...

The TESS mission has organized a working group to investigate “sector stitching” effects, and invites interested community members to participate.

"Sector stitching" refers to a common challenge in TESS data where a source’s measured flux is observed to be discontinuous across sector boundaries. The TESS mission is currently investigating ...

Welcome to the third update about Sector 1751, TESS’s special observation of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS!

20-s data are available: TESS 20-s and 120-s target pixel files (TPFs) surrounding the path of 3I/ATLAS can be downloaded in bulk here. The corresponding high-level science product, a comet-centered data cube ...

Welcome TESS followers to our latest news bulletin!¹

This week, we are looking at three recent papers from the archive. Enjoy!

In the first paper, astronomers have confirmed the discovery of two low-mass transiting brown dwarfs — TOI-4776 b and TOI-5422 b — found in a sparsely populated region of brown ...

The TESS Project Office announces a new mission policy to enable rapid community follow-up of high-energy transient events occurring in TESS’s field of view while preserving TESS’s tradition of open data with no period of exclusive access.

Under this policy, the mission may extract limited but actionable information ...