http://www.newsweek.com/nasas-tess-space-telescope-begins-hunt-undiscovered-planets-1047890

NASA’s new planet-hunting space telescope TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has begun its hunt for undiscovered worlds, the government agency have announced.

The spacecraft, will scour the skies, monitoring more than 200,000 nearby stars for new exoplanets—planets that lie beyond our Solar System. Some of these may reside in the habitable zone of their host star, in which case, they would become targets for future missions that could assess their ability to harbor life.