August
02
/ 2019
An international team of astronomers has characterized the first potentially habitable world outside of our solar system discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission designed to comb the heavens for exoplanets. Located about 31 light-years away, the super-Earth planet - named GJ 357 d - was discovered in early 2019 owing to TESS, according to the team’s new modeling research in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. “We Could Pick Out Signs of Life with Telescopes” "This is exciting, as this is TESS's first discovery of a nearby super-Earth that could harbor life -- TESS is a small, mighty mission with a huge reach," said Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy, director of Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute and a member
