Hawking-backed project scanning Milky Way for alien life
Breakthrough Listen, a $100-million initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the Universe, has expanded its survey to millions of stars located in the plane of Milky Way galaxy, using Australia-based Parkes telescope. "In an infinite Universe, there must be other life," late physicist Stephen Hawking said in 2015 while launching the project, funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.