The uncommon interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, is captivating astronomers worldwide as it races through our solar system ...

Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...

Chrysalis, a 36-mile rotating space habitat, plans to take 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri in approximately 400 years.

How close to Earth could we find the next Earth-like exoplanet? This is what two papers accepted in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of more than two dozen researchers ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers detected a potential gas giant exoplanet, designated S1, orbiting Alpha Centauri A, a star in the closest stellar system to Earth. The ...

Exoplanet hunters have had an eye on Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth at just four light-years away, for decades. We know that it consists of two Sun-like stars, Alpha Centauri A and ...

While it's unlikely to come to fruition, designs for the 2.4-billion-ton Chrysalis could see humanity embark on a ...

The nearest star beyond our Sun is Proxima Centauri, and while it sounds close in astronomical terms, the journey there […] ...

In some of its most ambitious work yet, the James Webb Space Telescope looked to spot a planet in a potentially habitable orbit around Alpha Centauri A, the nearest sunlike star to our solar system ...

These hot August nights can be great for stargazing. Here’s a look at what’s going on above us right now and later in the month. Lawrence Livermore National Lab enters a different kind of space race ...