NASA’s TESS spacecraft may find 1,600 new planets in the next two years

We have a spacecraft that’s currently in orbit of the Sun that has a similar job. It’s called Kepler, and in the nine years it’s been in space, this little satellite has found 2,342 confirmed exoplanets, with 2,245 more candidates that still need to be studied. Thirty of these are confirmed to be within the …

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