For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.

>"A spooky radio signal showed up after a radio telescope was aimed at the next star over from our sun."

Tess, the ‘Planet Hunter’ goes into a highly elliptical orbit this week. Using a wide field survey, Tess uses 4 cameras to map sections of the sky, spending 27 days on each detecting exoplanets using the transit technique.