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...
15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
... exoplanet was spotted whizzing around the red dwarf in just 11 days. Despite the close proximity of the Alpha Centauri system, it took many years to find Proxima b, so it is not surprising that scientists working on exoplanets would like to see the...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... One World Trade Center in New York on 20 April 2016. The programme seeks to launch interstellar probes to the Alpha Centauri system and has three phases. The first phase requires an estimated $100 million over five to seven years...
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...
