NASA TESS Observatory Will Hunt For Alien Life On "Super-Earth" Exoplanets 112
An anonymous reader writes "Kepler may be down, but now NASA has another planet-hunting tool in mind. The space agency is preparing the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) observatory in order to follow in Kepler's footsteps. NASA has been searching for alien planets for several years now. Learning about strange exoplanets such as enormous, hot 'Jupiters' and 'rogue planets' that actually cruise through space without a parent star certainly adds to the body of research concerning our universe. Yet what scientists are really interested in are the Earth-like planets that may hold the potential for life."
Re:Dear slashdot mods (Score:3, Informative)
Re:No star? (Score:5, Informative)
Are they're looking for life on planets not warmed by a star?
Or just hoping to find an alien Moonbase Alpha?
They just mentioned those no star planets as an example of how cool it is out in space, but they will be looking for earth like planets in the habitable zone, which means a planet that orbits a star/sun.
Re:Never a serious activity (Score:4, Informative)
You own link clearly says that the soviets independently developed their weapons and that no useful information was transmitted from this guy to soviet scientists.