Exoplanets - Searching for Other Planets Like Ours

Update: The Kepler Space Telescope was retired in 2018, and NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system, including those that could support life.

Do planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, also have living things? We don’t know! But NASA scientists are looking. They watch the starry skies for planets similar to Earth...