TESS Unveils the Most Complete All-Sky View of Exoplanets
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has released its most complete all-sky mosaic (96 sectors from 2018–Sept. 2025), showing about 679 confirmed exoplanets and 5,165 candidates; the image traces the Milky Way’s plane and demonstrates TESS’s ongoing success in finding diverse worlds, including possible habitable-zone planets, while total exoplanet confirmations across missions exceed 6,270.