Traveling to another star isn’t just a matter of dreaming—it’s a battle against distance, time, and physics. Even at the ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 will soon reach one light-day from Earth, highlighting humanity’s most distant spacecraft and the vast scale ...

Ancient galaxies colloquially known as "little red dots" have proven a mystery ever since astronomers discovered them three ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Plus Jon Willis’s “The Pale Blue Data Point.” ...

It took the last traces of Homo sapiens 10,000 desperate years to reach the semi-oxygenated rock orbiting Proxima Centauri. Widely known as a cosy bothy among the stars, it was a place where stellar ...

In 2026, Voyager 1, humanity's farthest reaching Energizer Bunny of a probe, will travel toward an almost comprehensible benchmark: being a full light-day away from Earth. According to NASA's data, ...

Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes, born in 1861, discovered Proxima Centauri in 1912, initially suspecting it as a third member of the Alpha Centauri system. At the time of this hypothesis, Alpha Centauri A ...

A new interstellar concept called Chrysalis sketches a 36 mile long rotating habitat designed to carry 2,400 people on a one way, 400 year trip. The destination is Alpha Centauri, about 25 trillion ...

Humanity’s dream of reaching the stars has grown since the 19th century when we first measured the distance to a star, and today that dream feels closer with the discovery of Proxima B, an Earth-like ...

Scientists may have found the first planet ever detected around our closest “solar twin,” a star called Alpha Centauri A, the same real-life star that was home to the fictional moon Pandora in James ...

This artist’s concept shows what a gas giant orbiting Alpha Centauri A could look like. Observations of the triple star system Alpha Centauri using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope indicate the ...