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Detailed explanation-1: -NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size world. The planet, HD 21749c, is about 89% Earth’s diameter.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Super Earth” discovered by NASA’s TESS nearly 100 light years away from Earth. An Earth-like exoplanet has been discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite millions of light years away from Earth.

Detailed explanation-3: -TESS Exoplanet Mission NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is an all-sky survey mission that will discover thousands of exoplanets around nearby bright stars. TESS launched April 18, 2018 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Detailed explanation-4: -Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) In its prime mission, a two-year survey of the solar neighborhood, TESS monitored the brightness of stars for periodic drops caused by planet transits.

Detailed explanation-5: -TESS is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission led and operated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.