@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@ - +id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV"> The job of NASA's Transiting [https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Exoplanet Exoplanet] [https://www.martindale.com/Results.aspx?ft=2&frm=freesearch&lfd=Y&afs=Survey%20Satellite Survey Satellite] is simply surreal. Imagine traveling a thousand years back in time and [https://www.rtnewstoday.com/ RT News Today] then explaining to someone how future scientists will have a [https://www.bbc.co.uk/search/?q=machine machine] that detects alien worlds floating at distances beyond the capacity of human imagination. <br>That's TESS.<br><br>Since 2018, this space-borne instrument has literally found thousands of exoplanets.<br><br>We have eyes on one , another that seems and even an orb that  -- sideways.<br><br>On Wednesday, international [https://www.caringbridge.org/search?q=scientists scientists] announced that one such foreign realm, dutifully hunted by TESS, may be covered in a blanket of life's elixir: water. <br><br>I'm not sure about you, but I'm getting flashbacks to that scene in Interstellar where Cooper lands on a world with waves the size of skyscrapers. <br> <br>This possible "ocean world," according to the team's study, [https://www.answers.com/search?q=published published] this month in , lives some 100 light-years away from Earth, orbiting within a binary star system nestled into the Draco constellation.