Exoplanet-hunting telescope to begin search for another Earth in 2026

Exoplanet-hunting telescope to begin search for another Earth in 2026

Europe’s next big space mission — a telescope that will hunt for Earth-like rocky planets outside of our solar system — is on course to launch at the end of 2026. PLATO, or PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars, is being built to find nearby potentially habitable worlds around Sun-like stars that we can examine … Read more