Engineers have designed a 36-mile spacecraft, Chrysalis, capable of carrying 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri. The design recently won the Project Hyperion Design Competition.

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted a gas giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A.

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile-long spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to take up to 2,400 ...

Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet of a giant planet in the "habitable zone" orbiting a star in the nearest ...

There may be an exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri A in the zone where liquid water could occur. This has not been confirmed, but there are now two images.

Here’s a look at what’s going on above us right now and later in the month. The expression “dog days” refers to the period ...

Alpha Centauri’s possible new gas giant is too hostile for life itself but could have icy moons worth exploring.

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for a giant gas planet in a nearby solar system - with moons that could be habitable.

CINCINNATI (WKRC/NASA/CBS Newspath) - Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered compelling evidence ...