Astronomers aim to find habitable planets by 2031 with brand new £8bn mega telescope

dailystar.co.uk:

Astronomers have announced a new target to find habitable planets outside of our solar system by 2031.The plans come as part of the "decadal survey" released by the U.S.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine yesterday.Decadal surveys are released every ten years and, based on heaps of research and committee meetings, lay out scientific priorities and funding recommendations.The latest survey - "Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s" - is a whopping 614 pages long and proposes three core aspects of astronomy and astrophysics to be focused on in the next ten years.The first of these priorities is the discovery and study of habitable exoplanets (planets not in our solar system)."This report sets.