With the launch of TESS, NASA will boost its search for exoplanets
Astronomers expect TESS to find 20,000 faraway planets in the next two years

LOOK CLOSER NASA’s next exoplanet hunting telescope, TESS (shown in this artist’s illustration), will seek out worlds orbiting the nearest and brightest stars.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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