NASA’s TESS Finds Its First Earth-like Habitable Zone Planet

TOI 700 is home to TOI 700 d, the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by NASA's TESS.
Credit: Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launched in April 2018 on a $357 million, two-year primary mission led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to seek out planets around the nearest stars, has claimed its first discovery of an Earth-like world in the habitable zone of...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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