- BLP is US$100-million global astronomical initiative launched in 2015 by Internet investor Yuri Milner and cosmologist Stephen Hawking.
- It has teams from around the world to find signs of intelligent life in universe.
- The 10-year programme aims to survey 1,000,000 closest stars to Earth by scanning entire galactic plane of Milky Way.
- It will listen for messages from the 100 closest galaxies at 10 billion different frequencies originated beyond our galaxy.