Science
Space telescope delivers the goods – NASA Exoplanet Exploration and Discovery
A newly published catalog reveals 2,200 new exoplanet candidates, found in data captured by TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
The news is out of this world: NASA’s TESS space telescope has captured evidence of more than 2,200 candidate planets orbiting bright, nearby stars, including hundreds of “smaller” planets – many possibly rocky worlds in some ways similar to Earth.
As scientists seek to confirm the discoveries, TESS’s large haul promises a possible explosion in the number of known exoplanets – planets orbiting other stars. Perhaps even better: The relative brightness of the stars they orbit should allow TESS’s successor…
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