NASA Launches Planet-Hunting Satellite In A Quest To Find Alien Worlds!

SpaceX has launched NASA's planet-hunting satellite TESS into outer space Wednesday evening from Cape Canaveral. Tess — short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — will spend two years searching for planets near bright, nearby stars. The satellite was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports that TESS will scan nearly the entire sky for alien worlds. The satellite will build on work of the Kepler mission, which found more than 3,000 planets around far-off stars. Posted By Persist