Less than five light years away sit three stars orbiting each other. You probably remember that one of them, Proxima…
Last year, Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner hatched an ambitious plan to send a tiny probe to the…
When astronomers confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized world orbiting Proxima Centauri just 4.25 light years away,…
Exoplanets are all the rage nowadays thanks in part to Kepler’s discovery of around 1,284 previously undiscovered…
Earlier today, Stephen Hawking and Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner announced a thrilling plan to deploy tiny…
The triple star system of Alpha Centauri is only 4.3 light-years—about 25 trillion miles—away. The possibility of an…
Yesterday, the European Southern Observatory announced they'd confirmed the existence of a planet in Alpha Centauri,…
Holy sci-fi awesome space balls. European astronomers have discovered an alien planet in Alpha Centauri, the star…
This is huge. We've discovered a lot of exoplanets, including rocky Earth-like ones, in far-away star systems. But the…
Located just 4.3 light-years away, the Alpha Centauri star system is our closest neighbor. But theirs is a very…
The Sun's tremendous gravitational pull actually warps the fabric of space around it, creating focal points where light…
If you take humanity's current energy and technological capacity and project a steady increase into the future, the…
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