Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

In principle, discovering new exoplanets is pretty easy. Simply measure the brightness of a star over time, and when a planet passes in front of the star, the brightness will dim slightly. The more ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark they are." NASA scientists have devised a new way to use planets that cross, ...