{"id":175429,"date":"2023-11-05T10:23:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/tess-finds-eight-more-super-earths"},"modified":"2023-11-05T10:23:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T16:23:01","slug":"tess-finds-eight-more-super-earths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/tess-finds-eight-more-super-earths","title":{"rendered":"TESS Finds Eight More Super-Earths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tess-finds-eight-more-super-earths2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Kepler spacecraft has discovered most of the confirmed exoplanets that we know of. But its successor, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), is catching up. New research announces the validation of eight more TESS candidates, and they\u2019re all Super-Earths.<\/p>\n<p>TESS\u2019s planet-hunting mission has a more refined goal than its predecessor, Kepler. TESS was specifically built to detect exoplanets transiting in front of bright stars in Earth\u2019s neighbourhood. It\u2019s found about 400 confirmed exoplanets, but there\u2019s a list of exoplanets awaiting confirmation that contains almost 6,000 candidates. There are only two ways to confirm all these exoplanets-in-waiting: further observations and statistical methods.<\/p>\n<p>What all those unconfirmed candidates amount to is data. They\u2019re hiding in TESS\u2019s data, waiting for clever scientists to validate them. Further observations can help uncover them, but not alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Kepler spacecraft has discovered most of the confirmed exoplanets that we know of. But its successor, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), is catching up. New research announces the validation of eight more TESS candidates, and they\u2019re all Super-Earths. TESS\u2019s planet-hunting mission has a more refined goal than its predecessor, Kepler. TESS was specifically built [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}