The appearance of the Interstellar Objects (ISOs) Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of…
Sailing has been a mainstay of human history for millennia, so it's no surprise that scientists would apply it to…
The Breakthrough Starshot program aims to cross the immense distances to the nearest star in just decades. Using a high-powered…
The TOLIMAN space telescope will search for exoplanets next door, and has contracted with EnduroSat to make that happen.
Breakthrough Initiatives just announced a collaborative effort to launch a space telescope that will search for habitable planets around Alpha…
We'd love to find another planet like Earth. Not exactly like Earth; that's kind of ridiculous and probably a little…
One of the less appreciated aspects of George Lucas’ vision for Star Wars was that he predicted the existence of…
Professor Avi Loeb's new book, Extraterrestrial, tells the tale of how he 'Oumuamua may be humanity's first interstellar messenger.
Astronomers using a new technique may have not only found a super-Earth at a neighbouring star, but they may also…
Our closest stellar neighbour is Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf star about 4.2 light years away from us. It's…