It's known as Swarming Proxima Centauri, a collaborative effort between Space Initiatives Inc. and the Initiative for ...

"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to ...

Marshall Eubanks, CEO of the startup Space Initiatives Inc and a fellow at NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts, is researching ...

SETI normally listens for extraterrestrial signals. A SETI team has switched roles and considered where aliens can hear us ...

Unless Proxima Centauri b managed to form a robust atmosphere and a particularly strong magnetic field, intense space weather events could blast the surface of the planet with radiation that could ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

Propelled to a fifth the speed of light by a laser beam more powerful than a million suns, tiny spacecraft envisioned by the Breakthrough Starshot initiative are depicted around Proxima Centauri b ...

Because Breakthrough Starshot’s payload is so small, reaching Proxima Centauri—the nearest star ... But with a 1,000 kg satellite, NASA (or whatever space agency is behind this bold endeavor ...

Another destination under consideration is Proxima Centauri, which is even closer ... thanks to the mighty laser blast beamed into space from Earth. But Klupar noted that a 100-gigawatt laser ...

Here are some pics of most earth-like exoplanets uploaded by NASA: Gliese 667Cc, 22 light-years from Earth, is 4.5 times Earth's mass, orbits its cooler red dwarf star in 28 days, and likely resides ...