NASA’s new planet-hunting spacecraft TESS has found its third distant world

NASA’s newest planet-hunting spacecraft has already spied and confirmed a third world outside our Solar System — just three months into the vehicle’s science operations. This newly discovered planet, or exoplanet, is relatively close by, orbiting a small star just 53 light-years away. And that means we may be able to study this world more extensively, to figure out what its atmosphere might hold.
The discoverer of these worlds is NASA’s TESS satellite — a spacecraf