While Lubin stressed that a journey to Alpha Centauri would be a long-term endeavor, Eubanks said he's confident that big ...

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are designing ways to propel payloads to the nearest star system (Alpha Centauri) using ...

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

1 AU of its journey, which totals more than 277,000 AU to Alpha Centauri. Even that minuscule amount of time might be enough to get a probe up to a respectable interstellar speed, but only if it's ...

To reach Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighboring star system, the Breakthrough Starshot initiative proposes to launch a fleet of tiny spacecraft, each weighing a gram or less, and accelerate them ...