NASA Is Launching A Planet-Hunting Satellite Today

The latest SpaceX rocket is scheduled for launch later today, and it will carry a pretty awesome NASA-funded project into space. The Transitioning Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to search the stars for other planets outside our solar system, and it's equipped with new tech in order for it to be able to detect relatively small planets orbiting other suns.Currently, we have located about 3800 exoplanets using other telescopes, specifically by the Kepler spacecraft which was launched