NASA's TESS is going to be your new favorite space mission

On April 16, NASA's latest and greatest mission is set to launch to space. 

The new space telescope is named TESS — short for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — and it has a pretty awesome job. 

TESS is going on a hunt for alien planets. 

The new mission, which is more than 10 years in the making, could mark our first step toward discovering another planet outside of our solar system that harbors life.

“TESS is opening a door for a whole new kind of study,” Stephen Rinehart, TESS project scientist, said in a statement. Read more...