NASA's planet hunter TESS has found 66 new exoplanets
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During its two-year-long primary mission, NASA's planet hunter TESS has found 66 new exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system. TESS, short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scanned about 75% of the starry sky during its primary mission. "TESS is producing a torrent of high-quality observations providing valuable data across wide range of science topics," said Patricia Boyd, the project scientist for TESS at NASA.