MINERVA-Australis Current Affairs, GK & News
NASA launches its newest planet-hunting spacecraft “TESS” to search for alien worlds
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has launched its newest planet-hunting spacecraft, Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a mission to find thousands of new worlds beyond our Solar System. The mission will survey a great swathe of stars, hoping to catch the dips in brightness that occur when ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2018
Topics: Astronomy • Exoplanet • Exoplanetology • MINERVA-Australis • NASA • Planetary science • Search for extraterrestrial intelligence • Space observatories • Space Science • Tess • Transit • Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite