Human beings always show an eagerness to study about any chance of life outside the Earth. In fact, they also try to learn about the distant solar system where one can settle after certain point of time. If any planet gets discovered which shows signs of life outside the Solar System, it would be possible because of NASA.

NASA’s new planet-hunting space probe TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) which made its ride to space on board SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets has already snooped and verified the existence of a third world outside our Solar System. Well, TESS was assigned the duty to hunt for planets besides our Solar System. The discovery has been made just three months into the probe’s science operations.

The newly detected planet is somewhat nearby, revolving a small star which is just 53 light-years away. This signifies that scientists may be able to study this world more at length, to assess what its atmosphere might hold.

The disclosure of these worlds by NASA’s TESS satellite- space shuttle which is just the size of a fridge was launched into orbit around Earth in April. TESS is the successor to NASA’s planet-hunting space probe, Kepler, which is sitting nearly 100 million miles away from Earth and has discovered thousands of distant new planets. After TESS’s mission began to get into full motion, Kepler ran out of fuel.

Both of these space probes are searching the sky for tiny dips in the light emerging from distant stars. The dips can offer a hint that a revolving planet is crossing in front and blocking briefly part of light from the star to reach the spacecraft. However, TESS’s mission is slightly different. While Kepler used to search one stretch of sky at all times and discover as many distant planets; on the other hand, TESS is explicitly looking for planets beyond our Solar System but close to Earth. It would be easier for studying. According to some scientists, with the help of various telescopes, the exoplanets could be studied. Also, the mass of these planets can be studied.