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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 ...

Our nearest neighbor, Alpha Centauri, is 4.37 light-years from Earth, which is super close from a cosmological perspective but achingly far from a human point of view. A new telescope promises to ...

Researchers at Cornell University have assembled a shortlist of rocky exoplanets sitting inside their stars’ habitable zones, ranking them as plausible destinations for an interstellar probe that ...

This artist’s concept shows what a gas giant orbiting Alpha Centauri A could look like. Observations of the triple star system Alpha Centauri using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope indicate the ...

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 ...

A new space telescope will search for habitable worlds orbiting stars in the Alpha Centauri system, a cluster of three stars comprising the sun's closest stellar neighbors. The mission named TOLIMAN ...

Since Earth is the only known inhabited planet and we happen to live here, it’s only natural to regard it as the ideal place for life to exist, and to assume that another life-bearing planet would be ...

Pretty soon we may know of a few distant alien rocky planets that have breathable, Earth-like atmospheres. That will be the work of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is now getting ready to ...