A system of seven sweltering planets has been revealed by continued study of data from NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope: Each one is bathed in more
George R. Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, is the principal investigator for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Sky Survey (TESS) Explorer mission, which has discovered thousands of new planets since its launch in 2018.