The Exoplanet Archive recently reached a major milestone - 6,000 confirmed exoplanets! Discovering 6,000 exoplanets is a huge achievement shared by scientists and astronomy enthusiasts around the world, using everything from backyard telescopes to cutting edge space-based observatories. We at the TESS Science Support Center are proud of the ...

Welcome TESS followers to our latest news bulletin!

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

First, we highlight a paper on a comprehensive analysis of CM Draconis. This target represents one of the most thoroughly studied low-mass eclipsing binary star systems, located just 47 ...

The TESS Cycle 8 review was held earlier this year, and preliminary decisions have been sent out. 133 proposals were submitted, covering a wide variety of science cases including exoplanets (42), stellar astrophysics (75), extragalactic sources (10), solar system science (1) and other science including data processing techniques (5). The ...

Welcome TESS followers to our latest news bulletin!

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

First, we highlight the discovery and confirmation of TOI-2431 b, a small planet with an orbital period of only 5.4 hours. Such planets represent some of the more ...

Welcome TESS followers to our latest news bulletin!

Last week, we witnessed the amazing first images from the Rubin Observatory! We are looking forward to the science that will be enabled by the overlap between Rubin and TESS Cycle 8 observations of the southern hemisphere. Go Rubin and TESS!

This ...