"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to ...

This wide-field view of the sky around the bright star system Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming ...

Tiny spaceships could be accelerated by lasers so that they reach the nearest star in 20 years. That's the theory. Now it's ...

The Alchiba system is a little-known star system on the edge of the galaxy. Here's how to find it in Starfield.

But could humans or spacecraft ever reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our planet? Alpha Centauri is about 4.4 ...

But some projects are designing ways to propel payloads to the nearest star system (Alpha Centauri) using beams of electrons. A new proposal uses an electron beam fired from a stable platform near ...

A team of scientists has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab.

The project hopes to propel roughly 1,000 tiny "StarChip" spacecraft toward Alpha Centauri, the second-closest star system to Earth, at 20% of light-speed (about 134 million mph). Each "chip ...

It appears to move because it’s so close to the solar system. Only the three-star Alpha Centauri star system, which is 4.1 light-years distant, is closer. In 2016, astronomers found a planet ...

Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth, is home to three stars, one of which is so tantalizingly similar to our sun that many experts speculate that its solar system might contain ...