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  NASA’s TESS Captures First Images of Rare Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

  NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has captured rare images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third such object ever detected. Observations from January 2026 reveal the comet rotates every 15 hours and produces sunlight-driven jets, behaving much like Solar System comets. Scientists say studying 3I/ATLAS may unlock clues about th...

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  Astronomers Discover "Water-Rich Super-Earth" Twice As Big As Our Planet

  Scientists have discovered a new "super-Earth" that is located about 154 light-years away and is nearly twice as big and four times as massive as our planet.

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  Astronomers Spot Two Earth-Like Planets in a Nearby Multiplanet System

  In a significant discovery, astronomers have spotted one of the closest known multiplanet systems located within our galactic neighbourhood. The system is about 10 parsecs or 33 light-years from Earth and was identified by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).

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  NASA's Planet Hunting Telescope Joins Search for Intelligent Aliens

  Scientists working on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have teamed up with Breakthrough Listen, an extraterrestrial intelligence search founded in 2015 by Russian billionaire and internet pioneer Yuri Milner.

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  NASA Exoplanet Hunter TESS Finds Earth-Size Planet

  NASA's new exoplanet hunter Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size world.

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  NASA Probe Discovers Third New Planet Outside Solar System

  NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a third small planet outside our solar system, scientists report.

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  NASA Bids Goodbye To Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope

  NASA has decided to retire its Kepler space telescope that discovered more than 2,600 planets and ran out of fuel needed for further science operations.

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  NASA's Newest Planet Hunter Telescope Shares First Science Image

  NASA's newest planet hunter telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has now shared the first science image that it captured as part of its initial round of data collection.

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  New "Planet Hunter" Starts Scouring For "New Worlds"

  After a successful launch in April this year, NASA's newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has now started its search for planets around nearby stars.

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  SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Successfully Launches NASA's TESS Planet Hunting Telescope

  NASA's Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, lifted off on schedule from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:51pm EDT on Wednesday (4:21am IST on Thursday).

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  SpaceX Rocket Launched From Florida Carrying NASA Planet-Hunting Telescope

  A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on Wednesday on SpaceX's first high-priority science mission for NASA, a planet-hunting space telescope whose launch was delayed for two days by a rocket-guidance glitch.

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  Falcon 9 Glitch Postpones SpaceX's Launch of NASA's Planet-Hunting Satellite TESS

  SpaceX halted the countdown a little more than two hours before its Falcon 9 rocket had been scheduled to carry the Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, into orbit.