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Humans are looking to colonize the rest of the universe in Netflix’s reimagining of the 1960s sci-fi TV show “Lost in Space.” Of course, it doesn’t go very well — hence the name of the show. When ...

How soon could we really reach Alpha Centauri A? This documentary goes beyond Breakthrough Starshot to explore the most ...

Since Earth is the only known inhabited planet and we happen to live here, it’s only natural to regard it as the ideal place for life to exist, and to assume that another life-bearing planet would be ...

A new space telescope will search for habitable worlds orbiting stars in the Alpha Centauri system, a cluster of three stars comprising the sun's closest stellar neighbors. The mission named TOLIMAN ...

The star system closest to our own sun hosts a planet with roughly Earth's mass and may harbor other alien worlds as well, a new study reports. Astronomers detected the alien planet around the sunlike ...

The new TOLIMAN space telescope could launch in the mid-2020s. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new space telescope mission ...

Project Blue’s scientists still have to raise more than $800,000 over the next 15 days to reach their initial crowdfunding goal for a mission to observe Alpha Centauri’s alien planets, but they’re ...

If the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, does harbor rocky planets similar to Earth as new findings suggest, there exist a host of ways to get us there, in theory. Sending a person to Alpha ...

Yale astronomers have taken a fresh look at the nearby Alpha Centauri star system and found new ways to narrow the search for habitable planets there. According to a study led by Professor Debra ...

Researchers announced today that they've discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri. The planet is too close to the sun to have liquid water, and therefore ...