An Earth-size planet in the habitable zone? New NASA discovery is one special world. | Space

HONOLULU — When scientists search for alien planets, they get a special thrill when they find one that seems to reflect our own world back to us.  The planet was discovered courtesy of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, as one of three worlds in a distant solar system.>>>

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The biggest breakthroughs in space in 2019, from the farthest object ever visited to the first photo of a black hole

This year was full of astronomical breakthroughs in space. Photos captured phenomena nobody had ever seen before. Ambitious spacecraft revealed new secrets about the sun and the edges of our solar system. Astronomers spotted the brightest light in the universe, found new planets circling distant stars, and detected a collision>>>

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