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Paradi
Exo-Intelligence Atlas
Paradi / TESS mission
A planet finder that feeds the broader life-search pipeline
Life Search / science
TESS mission
TESS surveys bright, nearby stars for transiting planets, creating a target list that later missions and observatories can characterize in more detail.
Life Search2026
A planet finder that feeds the broader life-search pipeline
Target discovery is part of the contact pipeline; you cannot communicate with what you cannot first localize and characterize.
Key points
TESS is a discovery engine rather than a contact mission.
Nearby bright stars are strategically valuable for follow-up.
The mission’s all-sky approach complements earlier narrow-field surveys.
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Life Searchscience
NASA exoplanets overview
2026
Life elsewhere is plausible because worlds elsewhere are abundant
NASA’s exoplanets overview is the right reset for anyone who jumps from 'aliens on Earth' talk to broader questions about life in the cosmos.
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NASA exoplanet catalog
2026
The catalog is a live index of known worlds beyond the Solar System
The catalog is not a theory page. It is a living data resource showing how quickly the inventory of known exoplanets has expanded.
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Life Searchscience
NASA search-for-life overview
2026
A broad scientific rationale for looking beyond Earth
NASA’s 'Are We Alone?' pages describe the search for life as a multi-mission, multi-discipline effort spanning astronomy, planetary science, and astrobiology.
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