Chrysalis, a 36-mile rotating space habitat, plans to take 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri in approximately 400 years.

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TARS, named after the robot from the 2014 film "Interstellar," could potentially be a way to travel to other stars. TARS requires no fusion reactors, no gigawatt laser — and not even a chemical rocket ...

A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the astronomy world. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have detected ...

There might be a huge planet lurking near one of the closest stars to Earth. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has imaged a possible planet near Alpha Centauri A, a sun-like star that forms ...

With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...

What if we could leave the solar system? In this video, we explore what a journey to Alpha Centauri would look like, how long ...

A study published Aug. 11 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters revealed the potential discovery of a Saturn -size gas giant, dubbed S1, orbiting Alpha Centauri A — one of three stars that make up the ...

Engineers have designed a spacecraft that could take up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri, the star system closest to our own. The craft, called Chrysalis, could make the 25 trillion ...