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  • Released Thursday, November 5, 2015
  • Updated Monday, July 18, 2016 at 3:16PM
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Explore how future space missions will search for planets—and even asteroids and moons—around distant stars.

Explore how future space missions will search for planets—and even asteroids and moons—around distant stars.

Learn more about how astronomers observe changes in a star’s brightness to discover new worlds in this video.

Astronomers can tell how big a planet is in proportion to its star by the amount of dimming the planet causes during its transit.

Astronomers can tell how big a planet is in proportion to its star by the amount of dimming the planet causes during its transit.

Since its launch in 2009, Kepler has found more than 1,000 confirmed exoplanets by observing dips in the light emitted by stars.

Since its launch in 2009, Kepler has found more than 1,000 confirmed exoplanets by observing dips in the light emitted by stars.

NASA's TESS satellite, scheduled to launch by 2018, will be the first-ever spaceborne mission to survey the entire sky for transiting planets.

NASA's TESS satellite, scheduled to launch by 2018, will be the first-ever spaceborne mission to survey the entire sky for transiting planets.

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TESS image courtesy of MIT/Lincoln Laboratory


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