NASA is about to step up its planet-hunting game with the launch of TESS

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will scan the neighboring sky, searching for dips in the brightness of stars that signal the presence of a planet. A few worlds TESS finds may be small, rocky bodies like Earth. And a few of those might be habitable places for life as we know it.

Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 13, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Amina Khan Source Type: news