Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our own and has it's own earth-sized planet, Proxima Centauri b. The planet was ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima Centauri.

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system. Interstellar material has been found within our solar system, but ...

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Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

There’s real joy in sharing a telescope with others and observing in a crowd. Here's how you can find a star party near you ...

A spacecraft traveling at one-tenth of the speed of light could shave the trip down to a quick 40 years. Future engineers could use nuclear power to achieve that, says Scott Bailey, an engineer at ...

What if we discovered life on Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet to Earth, nestled in the habitable zone of the Alpha Centauri system? This science and space documentary explores the cosmos ...

These are the kinds of questions astrophysicist and science journalist Adam Becker poses in his new book, More Everything ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...