The hunt is on for closest Earth-like planets
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 11:52
in Astronomy & Space
NASA’s new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to ferret out habitable exoplanets, but with hundreds of thousands of sunlike and smaller stars in its camera views, which of those stars could host planets like our own? TESS will observe 400,000 stars across the whole sky to catch a glimpse of a planet transiting […]