NASA’s TESS discovers three new planets nearby

NASA’S TESS DISCOVERS THREE NEW PLANETS NEARBY   For: Preliminary & Mains Topics covered: Discovery of three new exoplanets, Major findings, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite   News Flash NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, has discovered three new worlds that are among the smallest, nearest exoplanets known to date. The planets orbit a star just 73 light-years away and include a small, rocky super-Earth and two sub-Neptunes – planets about half the size of…

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