NASA Launches Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Looking for Aliens

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Published Apr. 18, 2018 7:16PM EDT

Courtesy Chris Meaney/Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA/Handout via REUTERS

NASA on Wednesday launched the planet-hunting spacecraft Tess, which aims to search for evidence of life on other planets. The SpaceX Falcon rocket, which powered Tess into space, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, two days after the mission was temporarily halted. The spacecraft is carrying the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which scientists believe will identify thousands of planets.

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NASA Launches Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Looking for Aliens

Courtesy Chris Meaney/Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA/Handout via REUTERS