NASA's TESS Planet Hunter Finds Its 1st Earth-Size World in 'Habitable Zone'

For the first time, the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a roughly Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of its host star, the zone of orbital distances where liquid water could be stable on a world's surface.

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