Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong signs of a giant planet orbiting a star in the Alpha ...

There may be a habitable world at the Sun's closest solar twin. In the complex space inhabited by the Alpha Centauri triple ...

A spacecraft named Chrysalis could one day carry 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own. This ...

If Earth needs to borrow a cup of sugar, it's comforting to know that there may be a convenient, possibly habitable, world orbiting Alpha Centauri only 4.34 light years away – at least, if the ...

Take a tour of Chrysalis, a massive, cylindrical spacecraft designed for the Project Hyperion Design Competition.

The recent discovery of a potential gas giant circling the nearby star Alpha Centauri A has led to speculation that it may be ...

Travelling to our nearest star system is the ultimate one-way trip — but could you live your life among the stars? Let us ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest ...

Before departure, the first inhabitants would train in Antarctica for decades to adapt to isolation. The 58-kilometre-long vessel would rotate to maintain gravity.

Engineers have conceptualized Chrysalis, a rotating spacecraft designed for interstellar travel to Alpha Centauri. This ...

Planet could be a gas giant, orbiting 1 to 2 times the distance between Sun and Earth. The Alpha Centauri system, our nearest ...

With the restraints placed upon them by physics, sci-fi writers have imagined "generational ships" for decades. The idea is pretty simple: creating a ship that will sustain a small society of humans ...