The Planet-Hunting TESS Discovers Its Smallest Exoplanet to Date

Universetoday.com keeps us up to speed on Nasa’s TESS and a new planet just discovered similar in size to Earth and Mars.

Thanks in large part to the Kepler Space Telescope , the number of confirmed extrasolar planets has grown exponentially in the last decade. And with next-generation missions like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) already in orbit, more candidates and confirmed planets are being discovered all the time – […]


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