Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are ...

Alpha Centauri, located approximately 4.37 light-years (1 light-year is the distance light travels in one year, about 9.46 ...

Getting a spacecraft to another star is a monumental challenge. However, that doesn't stop people from working on it. The ...

Our space-exploration ambitions have boldly taken humans to the moon, rovers to Mars and spacecraft to the outer reaches of ...

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 ...

A team of physicists has outlined a possible way of sending probes deep into interstellar space within a reasonable timescale, using relativistic electron beams.

Killjoys on social media say there’s no point wishing on stars because they are already dead – but the naysayers are completely wrong.

Furthermore, any message sent from a probe at Alpha Centauri would take four years to arrive back on Earth, so communications issues present themselves as well. Regardless, the research run thus ...