NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has heard the song a star-quaking red giant sings to its partner black hole.

The story of a red giant star and a nearby black hole is less a tidy cosmic romance than a forensic case file, pieced together from vibrations, missing light, and subtle orbital tugs. Astronomers are ...

"We expected to see this effect, but we were still surprised by just how efficient these stars seem to be at engulfing their close planets." Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants. Using NASA’s TESS telescope to study nearly half a million stars, scientists ...