[SunkenCiv]

TESS Mission's First Earth-size World in Star's Habitable-zone | NASA Goddard | Published on January 6, 2020

[Long Jon No Silver]

Tidally locked to a star of only 40℅ output as our own. It must be very 'earth like' /s

[Telepathic Intruder]

No spin, other than once per year, also means no magnetic field to protect its atmosphere. It’s probably more like Mars than Earth; a near-vacuum desert planet.

[Bob434]

Can we move there and forbid liberals to join?

[Adder]

I’d be willing to go...if there’s pizza.

[FLT-bird]

It is a remarkable scientific advance just in the last 20 years that we can now detect exoplanets and even glean some information about them.

Obviously the big issue that will have to be solved next for us to explore further is the propulsion problem. Chemical rockets are just not fast enough to get anywhere. Even our most advanced ion engines are still much too slow. We need something that will allow our spacecraft to achieve at least some significant fraction of the speed of light.

[moovova]

But...where does space go?

[lurk]

Close is a relative term. Our furthest out space probe is about .75 light days out after 40 years’ travel.