NASA's TESS Mission , Has Already Identified , Thousands of Possible Alien Worlds.
'Newsweek' recently reported on some of the weirdest and most exciting exoplanet candidates detected by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
So far, TESS has discovered over 5,000 alien worlds outside of our own solar system.
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In 2018, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched the TESS mission and began gathering information about these distant worlds.
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This time last year, TESS had found just over 2,400 TOIs.
Today, TESS has reached more than twice that number—a huge testament to the mission and all the teams scouring the data for new planets.
I'm excited to see thousands more in the years to come!, Michelle Kunimoto, a postdoctoral researcher at MIT.
This time last year, TESS had found just over 2,400 TOIs.
Today, TESS has reached more than twice that number—a huge testament to the mission and all the teams scouring the data for new planets.
I'm excited to see thousands more in the years to come!, Michelle Kunimoto, a postdoctoral researcher at MIT.
'Newsweek' reports that many of the exoplanets already identified stand out for either general weirdness or a likeness to the Earth.
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TOI-2109b orbits its parent star, about 855 million light-years from Earth, in just 16 hours.
Daytime temperatures on TOI-2109b reach a searing 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
GJ-367b, one of the smallest planets detected, has a super-fast orbit of just eight hours, and daytime temperatures up to 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit.
Other exoplanets have been noted for their similarities to the Earth.
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In January of 2020, NASA announced it had found the first Earth-sized planet within the habitable zone of its star.
TOI-700d is reportedly a rocky world only slightly larger than Earth, about 100 light-years away