Over the last three decades, astronomers have discovered more than 6,000 planets outside our solar system — yet none that look just like home. That might be about to change.
A new telescope project kicking off in the Canary Islands in mid-December is tasked with one main objective: to find an Earth twin. The Terra Hunting Experiment will be the first systematic quest dedicated to looking for Earthlike planets orbiting sunlike stars with sufficient resolution and observation time to stand a chance of making such a discovery.
Article byMićo Tatalović, ScienceNews, Published