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…
A new study takes a look at the challenges of sending and receiving data over interstellar distances using tight-beam lasers
The concept of a Generation Ship is a time-honored one, but is it the best way to send an interstellar…
A new study has shown that the Alpha Centauri is not likely to support life and that one of its…
Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to us, at 4.37 light-years (about 25 trillion miles) away. In 2016, astronomers…