Which telescope of National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA has discovered its Smallest Pl...........

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Which telescope of National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) has discovered its Smallest Planet ever, named as L 98-59b ?

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

Kepler space telescope(KST)

James Webb Space Telescope(JWST)

Spitzer Space Telescope(SST)

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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

The United States(US) space agency, NASA's(National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a new planet called L 98-59b. It is roughly around 80 percent the size of Earth. It orbits L 98-59 star, which is about one-third the mass of Sun and lies about 35 light-years away. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the tiniest discovered by TESS to date.Two other exoplanets were also discovered orbiting the L 98-59 known as L 98-59c and L 98- 59d.The discovery was published in The Astronomical Journal.TESS: It is a space telescope cost $200 million launched as part of NASA's Explorers program. It is aimed at searching for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by its predecessor Kepler mission.