NASA’s TESS spacecraft will spend two years searching the sky for nearby alien worlds. By DENNIS OVERBYE, JONATHAN CORUM and JASON DRAKEFORD on Publish Date April 16, 2018. Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight
There’s a great world next door. Let’s go.
The search for alien worlds, and perhaps alien life, will take another step outward on Wednesday when TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is launched into orbit around the Earth. TESS will spend at least two years scrutinizing the entire sky for exoplanets — planets around other stars — within about 300 light years from here.
When is the launch? How can I watch it?
The launch was postponed on Monday and rescheduled for Wednesday at 6:51 p.m. Eastern.
Live video is available on NASA’s website at nasa.gov/live, or on YouTube.
