A powerful new planet hunter has begun searching the heavens for rocky, potentially habitable worlds. The ESPRESSO instrument, which is installed on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

A spectrograph is an instrument that separates light into its various wavelengths, and a newly built one in Chile will serve as the most powerful planet-hunting tool ever used. The Echelle ...

The European Space Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved a new milestone thanks to its ESPRESSO tool. With this, all four of VLT's 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes are working together as a ...

The hunt for exoplanets has entered a new phase with the European Southern observatory's Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) achieving first light ...

A new planet hunter has been fired up in Northern Chile — the ESPRESSO machine doesn't make coffee but is a massive spectrograph that is the most powerful planet-hunting tool ever to scan the cosmos.

May 28 (UPI) --Astronomers have confirmed the presence of an Earth-like exoplanet in the star system closest to our own, Proxima Centauri. Scientists identified the planet, Proxima b, with the help of ...

The existence of a planet the size of Earth around the closest star in the solar system, Proxima Centauri, has been confirmed by an international team of scientists including researchers from the ...

Proxima b an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of the nearest star to our own in the Proxima Centauri solar system — located just 4.2 light-years from Earth — has been confirmed by ...

ESO instrument on the VLT may detect the first known exoearth. It’s ‘nonsense’ to think that humanity is ever going to actually move to some nearby exoearth, says one of the world’s top planet hunters ...

The existence of a planet the size of Earth around the closest star in the solar system, Proxima Centauri, has been confirmed by a team of scientists. The planet, Proxima b, has a mass of 1.17 earth ...