Summary
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been in operation since July 2018, monitoring millions of stars across the entire sky and discovering hundreds of exoplanets.
TESS is now in its sixth year of operation and has mapped out more than 90% of the night sky. TESS's capability for precision photometry over this long baseline as well as open access to its data have resulted in an extraordinarily high scientific output from the mission across a broad range of astrophysics. TESS data have also been used synergistically with other missions, with its exoplanet discoveries fueling JWST science and its plethora of stellar and transient data used to inform future observatories like Rubin and Roman.
In this Splinter Meeting, we provide an overview of the TESS Extended Mission operations and science goals. We highlight TESS's impact across all areas of astronomy, sharing some of the amazing new science being conducted with TESS including exoplanet detections, stellar physics, and discoveries of transient events and other time-domain phenomena.