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Humans are looking to colonize the rest of the universe in Netflix’s reimagining of the 1960s sci-fi TV show “Lost in Space.” Of course, it doesn’t go very well — hence the name of the show. When ...

Reaching Alpha Centauri within a single human lifetime has long sounded like science fiction, yet a new generation of nuclear ...

Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor, yet it lies 40 trillion kilometers away. Using current technology like ...

The hype surrounding Breakthrough Starshot’s $100-million gambit to launch laser powered nanocrafts into deep space is understandable. It’s a fascinating project and represents a bold new direction ...

If the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, does harbor rocky planets similar to Earth as new findings suggest, there exist a host of ways to get us there, in theory. Sending a person to Alpha ...

Alpha Centauri, one of the two "Pointer Stars" that help stargazers find the Southern Cross in the Southern Hemisphere, may have a planet in orbit around it. If it does, the Webb Telescope will find ...

The recent discovery of an Earth-size alien planet right next door to us could help spark humanity's first true steps beyond our own solar system, scientists say. On Tuesday, a European team announced ...

Sometimes it takes a while for the meaning of a new scientific discovery to really sink in. In the case of the planet Proxima Centauri b, announced last week, it may take decades or even centuries to ...

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