If Earth needs to borrow a cup of sugar, it's comforting to know that there may be a convenient, possibly habitable, world orbiting Alpha Centauri only 4.34 light years away – at least, if the ...

The recent discovery of a potential gas giant circling the nearby star Alpha Centauri A has led to speculation that it may be ...

Take a tour of Chrysalis, a massive, cylindrical spacecraft designed for the Project Hyperion Design Competition.

How close to Earth could we find the next Earth-like exoplanet? This is what two papers accepted in The Astrophysical Journal ...

Travelling to our nearest star system is the ultimate one-way trip — but could you live your life among the stars? Let us ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest ...

After 9/11, the world couldn't stop talking about a person named Nostradamus. He was a French astrologer who lived in the 16th century and apparently predicted the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers ...

Before departure, the first inhabitants would train in Antarctica for decades to adapt to isolation. The 58-kilometre-long vessel would rotate to maintain gravity.

Engineers have conceptualized Chrysalis, a rotating spacecraft designed for interstellar travel to Alpha Centauri. This ...