ESO has signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives to adapt the Very Large Telescope instrumentation in Chile to conduct a search for planets in the nearby star system Alpha Centauri.
A consortium launched a crowdfunding campaign for an optical instrument that could search for planets in Alpha Centauri.
A team of ex-NASA scientists is now seeking private funding to scour the Alpha Centauri system for habitable planets.
Are there Earth-like planets in a neighboring star system? A new campaign called “Pale Red Dot” aims to show the public in real-time how to push astronomy to its limits to possibly find out.
