The spacecraft would be 36 miles long and contain the necessities for this space travel, all of which would be supported by ...

Before departure, the first inhabitants would train in Antarctica for decades to adapt to isolation. The 58-kilometre-long vessel would rotate to maintain gravity.

Engineers have conceptualized Chrysalis, a rotating spacecraft designed for interstellar travel to Alpha Centauri. This ...

The sci-fi-like project won the top prize in the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a contest for designing hypothetical ...

Alpha Centauri, part of the three-star system closet to our own, is often posed in science fiction as humanity's first hop ...

Researchers may have discovered a gas giant orbiting the star Alpha Centauri A, and it appears to be in the star's habitable ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted a gas giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A.

Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting one of three stars in the stellar system ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC/NASA/CBS Newspath) - Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered compelling evidence ...

A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the ...

At just over four light years distant, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun in the entire Universe. We know it has one planet, called Proxima b, and there's decent evidence of a second ...

The Proxima Centauri system can be understood as a miniature version of our solar system. The red dwarf star is only about 1/7 the diameter of the sun, or about 1.5 times that of Jupiter.