![]() ![]() NASA recently announced the discovery of a new, Earth-sized planet in the. More than a dozen universities, research institutes and observatories worldwide are participants in the mission. The TOI-700 star system is home to four planets, including two in its habitable zone that could host liquid water. ![]() Additional partners include Northrop Grumman, based in Falls Church, Virginia NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. George Ricker of MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research serves as principal investigator for the mission. The program's primary goals, as described in the 2014 NASA Science Plan, are to discover planets around other stars, to characterize their properties and to identify planets that could harbor life. TESS is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission led and operated by MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. NASA's science, technology and mission management office for the exploration of exoplanets. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center ![]() Watch to review some of TESS’s most interesting discoveries so far. The Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered the first exoplanet orbiting a main sequence star in 1995, using the radial velocity method. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has completed its two-year primary mission and is continuing its search for new worlds. ![]()
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