"Chinese Scientists Develop 6-Meter Space Telescope in Search of Habitable Exoplanets"
Chinese scientists have proposed the Tianlin Mission, a 6-meter space telescope, to study the atmospheres of potentially habitable Earth-sized exoplanets. The telescope would use a coronagraph to block the light of a star and capture light from orbiting planets, allowing for the analysis of their spectra. If funded and launched within the next 10-15 years, the mission could observe hundreds of Earth-like worlds and potentially confirm the presence of life on an exoplanet. Other planned missions by NASA and the European Space Agency are also in the race to discover new Earths and extraterrestrial life.