Astronomers are exploring Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, for signs of an Earth-like planet that could support life.

A newly accepted scientific paper involving East Texas A&M University’s Dr. Billy Quarles, an assistant professor of physics ...

Planet could be a gas giant, orbiting 1 to 2 times the distance between Sun and Earth. The Alpha Centauri system, our nearest stellar neighbor, has long captured the imagination of science fiction and ...

Alpha Centauri, part of the three-star system closet to our own, is often posed in science fiction as humanity's first hop ...

With the restraints placed upon them by physics, sci-fi writers have imagined "generational ships" for decades. The idea is pretty simple: creating a ship that will sustain a small society of humans ...

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry 2,400 passengers to ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted a gas giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A.

Here’s a look at what’s going on above us right now and later in the month. The expression “dog days” refers to the period ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC/NASA/CBS Newspath) - Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered compelling evidence ...

The sci-fi-like project won the top prize in the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a contest for designing hypothetical ...

In a thrilling development, astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence for a planet ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided crucial new evidence of a giant planet orbiting one of three stars making up ...