11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
... Telescope (VLT) instrumentation in Chile being adapted to search for planets in the nearby star system Alpha Centauri. The Alpha Centauri system hit the headlines last year when scientists detected the closest exoplanet to us – Proxima b – around...
25 September 2017
Boldly going in search of another pale blue dot
... has announced that it is living up to its name by boldly going on a hunt for habitable Earth-size planets in the Alpha Centauri system using a state-of the-art space telescope; but they will not be doing it alone. Helping in this search...
