The first hurdle is finding a black hole close enough to Earth. The nearest known black hole, Gaia BH1, is 1,500 light-years away — too far for a feasible mission. Bambi suggests a black hole within ...

The Alpha Centauri star system, located just four light-years from Earth, might host a giant planet in its habitable zone.

A newly accepted scientific paper involving East Texas A&M University’s Dr. Billy Quarles, an assistant professor of physics ...

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Planet could be a gas giant, orbiting 1 to 2 times the distance between Sun and Earth. The Alpha Centauri system, our nearest stellar neighbor, has long captured the imagination of science fiction and ...

With the restraints placed upon them by physics, sci-fi writers have imagined "generational ships" for decades. The idea is pretty simple: creating a ship that will sustain a small society of humans ...

Engineers have unveiled plans for Chrysalis, a massive 36-mile spacecraft designed to transport up to 2,400 passengers on a journey to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own.The ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in ...

A team of engineers has unveiled an ambitious design for a massive 58 km long spacecraft named Chrysalis, capable of carrying ...