NASA Satellite Spots Nearly 6,000 Possible Worlds

Send us a text and chime in! NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date, filling in gaps from previous observations. Nearly 6,000 colored dots scattered across the image show the locations of either confirmed or candidate exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, identified by the mission as of September 2025 at the end of TESS’s second extended mission. “Over the last eight years, TESS has become a fire hose of exoplane...