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 ...