TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant ...
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Telescope Uses Ripples in Space-Time to Detect a Huge Planet for the First Time

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.

Cotton Candy Planets? NASA’s TESS Mission Discovers Puffiest Gas Giants Orbiting Sun-like Star

Scientists have discovered two new super puff planets via the NASA exoplanet surveying project TESS (Transiting Exoplanet ...