Kepler Mission: Finding a New Planet to Live On - Tom Barclay

"Is there any other life out there?" That is a question which humanity has pondered for centuries. Tom Barclay works in NASA's Ames Center to answer such questions, and we may be close to finding out the truth. "A planet with the sexy name of Kepler-186F" orbits a star's habitable zone in the milky way. The best candidate planets for life should be earth-sized in order to have a solid surface and an atmosphere, and at a distance from a star to have liquid water-the essential element for life. While NASA is unlikely to determine if Kepler-186F has life in the near future, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Surveying Satellite) plans to search for more Earth-like planets amongst the stars.