NASA’s TESS Finds Intriguing World Sized Between Earth, Venus - NASA Science

NASA’s TESS Finds Intriguing World Sized Between Earth, Venus - NASA Science

5 min read NASA’s TESS Finds Intriguing World Sized Between Earth, Venus Using observations by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and many other facilities, two international teams of astronomers have discovered a planet between the sizes of Earth and Venus only 40 light-years away. Multiple factors make it a candidate well-suited for further study using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Gliese 12 b, which orbits a cool red…