The spacecraft would be 36 miles long and contain the necessities for this space travel, all of which would be supported by ...

A spacecraft named Chrysalis could one day carry 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own. This ...

There may be a habitable world at the Sun's closest solar twin. In the complex space inhabited by the Alpha Centauri triple ...

The sci-fi-like project won the top prize in the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a contest for designing hypothetical ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted a gas giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A.

Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting one of three stars in the stellar system ...

Researchers may have discovered a gas giant orbiting the star Alpha Centauri A, and it appears to be in the star's habitable ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC/NASA/CBS Newspath) - Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered compelling evidence ...

One of the brightest stars in the night sky seems to be orbited by a planet like Jupiter. The news is sure to cheer fans of ...

Breakthrough Watch: Alien-hunting effort takes telescopic aim at Proxima Centauri b by Alan Boyle on October 3, 2016 at 10:59 am Share 1 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

Proxima Centauri itself is an interesting star that's very different from our own. It's extraordinarily small, dim, and faint by solar standards, possessing just: 15% of the Sun's radial size, ...

The Proxima Centauri system can be understood as a miniature version of our solar system. The red dwarf star is only about 1/7 the diameter of the sun, or about 1.5 times that of Jupiter.