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

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BoldlyGo Institute and a consortium of prominent organizations including The SETI Institute, UMass Lowell, and Mission Centaur launched a crowdfunding campaign to support first phase of mission ...

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Scientists may have found the first planet ever detected around our closest “solar twin,” a star called Alpha Centauri A, the same real-life star that was home to the fictional moon Pandora in James ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC/NASA/CBS Newspath) - Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered compelling evidence of a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the closest Sun-like star to ...

In a historic discovery that has left scientists and astronomy enthusiasts in awe, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has potentially identified a new exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri A. This ...

The detection of a large interstellar object in 2017 named 'Oumuamua was a landmark discovery. Figuring out where the wayward traveler came from, though, is another challenge entirely, especially ...