Learn more about interstellar travel and what it would look like to travel to Proxima Centauri.

Laser-sail experiments test a route to nearby stars, while research reveals major barriers to interstellar missions.

The Fermi Explorer spacecraft will carry scientific instruments to study conditions along the route to Proxima Centauri, located 4.4 light-years, or approximately 25.8 trillion miles, from Earth.

Compact sensor-packed probes, propelled by laser- or Sun-powered sails, could be humanity's first scouts to another star system. Reading time 4 minutes The recent confirmation of an atmosphere around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The night sky looks crowded, but physics may keep distant civilizations from ever meeting or even noticing one another. (CREDIT: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first dedicated mission to another star will launch before the end of the decade, if all goes according to plan. A nonprofit ...

Even if aliens exist, perhaps they cannot come to EarthIn our discussions so far, we have considered reasons why aliens might ...

A group of executives and entrepreneurs led by Starcloud co-founders Philip Johnston, Adi Oltean and Ezra Feilden teamed up to develop humanity’s first interstellar spacecraft. If everything goes ...

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that space entrepreneur Dr. Kam Ghaffarian has joined the organization as a co-founder. Dr. Ghaffarian will help lead the ...

There is something almost offensive about a sky so full of stars and so empty of company. That is what gives Richard Feynman’s quote its sting: “There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered ...