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

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

Alpha Centauri, also known as Alpha Centauri A, is a three-star system. The brightest star, Alpha Centauri A, is quite ...

Could Alpha Centauri be a mirror of our own solar system? We dive into the secrets of this star system, reveal what ...

The winning design was named Chrysalis, and it was made to hold up to 2400 people. It is a 36-mile spacecraft that has everything that humans would need to live, reproduce, and survive throughout ...

Imagine taking a trip to the star system Alpha Centauri. It’s 25 trillion miles away, and it will take 400 years to get there ...

A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the astronomy world. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have detected ...

With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks ...

In humanity's search for life outside our Solar System, one of the best places to look is Alpha Centauri, a system containing the three nearest stars beyond the Sun. A new study that has involved ...

What new methods can be employed to help astronomers distinguish the light from an exoplanet and its host star so the ...