rovers to Mars and spacecraft to the outer reaches of the solar system. But could humans or spacecraft ever reach Alpha ...

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are designing ways to propel payloads to the nearest star system (Alpha Centauri) using ...

It would then take them just 20 years to travel to the Alpha Centauri star system four light years away, but they would have extremely little time to explore the system –. It is not possible for ...

Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth, is home to three stars, one of which is so tantalizingly similar to our sun that many experts speculate that its solar system might contain ...

Sailing has been a mainstay of human history for millennia, so it's no surprise that scientists would apply it to traveling ...

Breakthrough Starshot focuses on a tiny design with gigantic solar "wings" that would allow them to ride a beam of light to Alpha Centauri ... other known propulsion system would be able to ...

The project hopes to propel roughly 1,000 tiny "StarChip" spacecraft toward Alpha Centauri ... reaches for the Centauri star systems, it has a much closer target: the solar system.

An exoplanet is a planet outside our own solar system. This is the closest such planet ever discovered ... Breakthrough Starshot aims to develop proof-of-concept tiny nanocraft (‘StarChips’), which ...

It appears to move because it’s so close to the solar system. Only the three-star Alpha Centauri star system, which is 4.1 light-years distant, is closer. In 2016, astronomers found a planet ...