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The Kepler space telescope has been the source of most of the known candidate exoplanets.
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Some researchers have already started thinking about how they might use instruments like the planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope to detect alien moons.
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This past December, for example, NASA's Kepler space telescope confirmed its first planet in the habitable zone, a "super Earth" known as Kepler-22b that's thought to be 2.4 times as wide as our planet.
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NASA's Kepler space telescope hasn't exactly been a slouch when it comes to planet hunting, but that effort will soon be getting a considerable boost courtesy of a new mission selected by NASA as part of its Explorer program.
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Moreover, millions of these planets may circle two stars an arrangement considered so unlikely that until a few months ago it was found only in science fiction according to a separate finding by astronomers using NASA's Kepler space telescope that was published online Wednesday in Nature.
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It was set up by a group at the universities of Oxford and Yale, and links 40, 000 participants with data gathered by Kepler, another NASA space telescope that is specifically designed to hunt for planets.
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Dubbed the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (or TESS), this new space telescope will one-up Kepler with the ability to perform an all-sky survey (an area 400 times larger than previous missions) to search for transiting exoplanets, with an eye towards planets comparable to Earth in size.
ENGADGET: NASA gives planet-hunting TESS space telescope go-ahead for 2017 launch