Now that TESS is Operational, Astronomers Estimate it'll Find 14,000 Planets. 10 Could Be Earthlike Worlds in a Sunlike Star's Habitable Zone

How many exoplanets are there? Not that long ago, we didn’t know if there were any. Then we detected a few around pulsars. Then the Kepler spacecraft was launched and it discovered a couple thousand more. Now NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) is operational, and a new study predicts its findings. The Kepler findings …