The dream of interstellar travel is becoming increasingly real, and Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth, is at ...

An international team led by the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Montreal published the first results today from the NIRPS ...

Proxima Centauri, just 4.24 light-years from Earth, is the closest known star to our Sun. Though it’s the smallest member of ...

Breakthrough Watch: Alien-hunting effort takes telescopic aim at Proxima Centauri b by Alan Boyle on October 3, 2016 at 10:59 am Share 1 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977 and traveling for nearly 50 years, has not yet traveled the distance light covers in one day.

Proxima Centauri is located around 4.25 light-years away making it the nearest star to Earth beyond our sun. The star's planet, called Proxima b, is approximately the same mass as Earth and orbits ...

The Space Shuttle would've taken roughly 165,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri; our current level of ion drive technology could perform the same feat in about half the time, or about 81,000 years.

The star is called Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf that’s part of the Alpha Centauri system, 4.2 light-years away.

Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and a red dwarf star. A red dwarf is the smallest, coolest and most common kind of star in our region of the Milky Way galaxy.

The Proxima Centauri system can be understood as a miniature version of our solar system. The red dwarf star is only about 1/7 the diameter of the sun, or about 1.5 times that of Jupiter.

Proxima Centauri itself is an interesting star that's very different from our own. It's extraordinarily small, dim, and faint by solar standards, possessing just: 15% of the Sun's radial size, ...