In hunt for life, astronomers identify most promising stars

(Cornell University) NASA's new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to ferret out habitable exoplanets, but with hundreds of thousands of sunlike and smaller stars in its camera views, which of those stars could host planets like our own? A team of astronomers from Cornell University, Lehigh University and Vanderbilt University has identified the most promising targets for this search in the new 'TESS Habitable Zone Star Catalog,' published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.