Above, yours truly with a couple of strange visitors from another planet in Roswell, New Mexico.
We are not alone.
Well, maybe, maybe not. But the idea that there may be some life-sustaining planets out in the universe is tantalizing to consider.
NASA has found over 5,000 potential alien worlds, some of which, as a Newsweek article says, are weird.
They begin with:
The number of exoplanet candidates detected by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) recently surpassed 5,000, and Newsweek has collected some of the weird and exciting worlds that have been discovered over the years.
The TESS mission, launched in 2018 and led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), helps scientists to discover distant worlds outside of our solar system.
These worlds, called exoplanets, can be discovered whenever they pass in front of their stars along the telescope's line of sight. When this happens, the star's brightness appears to dip repeatedly.
Keep watching the skies!
To read the full article, go here.
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