China plans world's first search for habitable planets outside our solar system - CGTN

Chinese scientists have proposed a space project to survey the sky through a space-borne telescope to hunt for habitable Earth-like planets outside our solar system, about 32 light-years from Earth.

An artistic illustration of exoplanets. /CFP An artistic illustration of exoplanets. /CFP Chinese scientists have proposed a space project to survey the sky through a space-borne telescope to hunt … [+4551 chars]

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