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NASA's planet hunter finds a black hole ripping apart a star
TESS, NASA's $ 200 million telescope, observes a black hole about 600 million times more massive than the Sun.
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NASA planet-like planet hunters will search in the vicinity
While the search for distant exoplanets is heating up every day, NASA's new satellite will choose its own path: finding extrasolar planets near us.
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The Kepler space telescope returned to operation
Beginning later this month, scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center will deploy Kepler's next mission.
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NASA recruited a new
The central tool of the new mission will be the TESS space observatory, abbreviated from the Transit Planet Satellite Satellite, scheduled to orbit in 2017.