NASA plans to launch three space telescopes in the next 10 years

During the next 10 years, the US intends to put into space three new telescopes to detect planets that are potentially suitable for life.
 
According to Assistant Director of NASA Thomas Zurbuken, in March 2018, a spacecraft called Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will be launched into space. The purpose of TESS is to identify the planetary systems closest to the Earth, which in terms of their parameters are the most similar to the solar system.
 
The telescopes that will be put into orbit after TESS will study the discovered solar systems.       Thus the telescope James Webb is scheduled to launch in the first half of 2019. James Webb will be the most powerful space telescope. It will replace Hubble, which was launched in 1990.
 
In 2024 - 2026, NASA plans to send into space a wide-angle infrared telescope WFIRST, which, compared to Hubble, will be able to observe a 100 times larger area of space. With the help of WFIRST, scientists expect to receive information both about exoplanets and the dark matter, as well as the structure and evolution of the universe.
 
Based on information obtained with Hubble and other telescopes, NASA experts previously suggested that only in the Milky Way galaxy, in which the solar system is located, there are at least 11 billion the Earth-sized  planets. The existence of 3.5 thousand exoplanets, on which the existence of life is potentially possible, has been confirmed since 1995, NEWSru reports.

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