Oct 6 2017
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Less than five light years away sit three stars orbiting each other. You probably remember that one of them, Proxima…
Feb 1 2017
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Last year, Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner hatched an ambitious plan to send a tiny probe to the…
Oct 13 2016
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When astronomers confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized world orbiting Proxima Centauri just 4.25 light years…
Jul 27 2016
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Exoplanets are all the rage nowadays thanks in part to Kepler’s discovery of around 1,284 previously undiscovered…
Apr 12 2016
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Earlier today, Stephen Hawking and Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner announced a thrilling plan to deploy tiny…
Apr 11 2013
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The triple star system of Alpha Centauri is only 4.3 light-years—about 25 trillion miles—away. The possibility of an…
Oct 17 2012
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Yesterday, the European Southern Observatory announced they'd confirmed the existence of a planet in Alpha Centauri,…
Oct 16 2012
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Holy sci-fi awesome space balls. European astronomers have discovered an alien planet in Alpha Centauri, the star…
Oct 16 2012
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This is huge. We've discovered a lot of exoplanets, including rocky Earth-like ones, in far-away star systems. But…
Jul 3 2011
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Located just 4.3 light-years away, the Alpha Centauri star system is our closest neighbor. But theirs is a very…
Dec 17 2010
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The Sun's tremendous gravitational pull actually warps the fabric of space around it, creating focal points where…
Sep 27 2010
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If you take humanity's current energy and technological capacity and project a steady increase into the future, the…