On record 2025 as one of the most amazing years in contemporary astronomy, providing findings that would turn our collective ...

I/ATLAS is not unique, in the sense that there could be billions and trillions of such objects in the Milky Way. In fact, ...

In the late 1950s, Project Orion proposed using controlled nuclear explosions to propel massive spacecraft at unprecedented speeds. From city-sized starships to a 44-year journey to Alpha Centauri, ...

China's SpaceX rival, LandSpace, suffered a dramatic rocket failure during a reusability test, highlighting the risks in the ...

In 2025, astronomers revealed nearby exoplanets, a rare interstellar comet, possible biosignatures on Mars, and an ...

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

From plasma engines that could turn months of travel into weeks to the first blueprints for ships that will outlive their ...

Fire and Ash remains in question after a major twist in the new film. Stephen Lang has been a big part of the Avatar franchise since the first film, where he was a major antagonist for Jake and the Na ...

The recent discovery of a potential gas giant circling the nearby star Alpha Centauri A has led to speculation that it may be orbited in turn by a habitable moon that could support life, just like in ...

A team of astronomers on Thursday provided the strongest evidence yet that a planet circles one of Alpha Centauri’s sunlike stars. The world is at the very edge of the region around the star where ...

It’s not easy to uncover exoplanets, largely lightless objects that either lurk in the dark void of space or are blown out by the light of a nearby star. But astronomers using the James Webb Space ...

Aug. 7 (UPI) --NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the solar system closest to Earth, the administration announced Thursday. The Alpha ...