Dr. Ricker is the PI of the TESS Mission which will explore nearby stars for exoplanets. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will discover thousands .
We always have to keep in mind that a Documentary, after all, can tell lies and it can tell lies because it lays claim to a form of veracity which fiction doesn't.
NASAs Kepler mission breathtakingly revealed that our galaxy was filled with stars surrounded by planetary systems of all kinds. Our search for planets will not .
Sara Seager is a professor of planetary science and physics at MIT and a contributor to a recent collection of essays on the current state of the search for life .