Alien life BOOST: How NASA satellite will find ‘HUNDREDS of habitable Earth-like planets’

Then, the astronomers will scan 1,690 stars for Earth-like planets up to 1.6 times the size of our home world.

Overall, NASA’s TESS will look at cool dwarf stars burning between 2,427C and 4,727C degrees (2,700 and 5,000 degrees Kelvin).

These stars are roughly about half as hot as our own Sun and are approximately four light years away from Earth – 23,514,501,000,000 miles.

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