Seattle-area nonprofit group kicks off a campaign to raise $15 million and solicit bids for a milestone interstellar mission. Read More ...

The team behind Starcloud's orbital data centers has a new high-risk space project: Sending a probe to Alpha Centauri.

The wait for this mission to go interstellar is unreal. The exact wait to mission completion is 79,800 years, according to ...

Sending humanity's first spacecraft to another star will help realize the idea of interstellar travel.

The Fermi Explorer mission is asking for donations to send a spacecraft to the closest star system to Earth. Just don't ...

The Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star by the end of 2029, using a trajectory discovered ...

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Humans have dreamed about traveling to other star systems and setting foot on alien worlds for generations. To put it mildly, interstellar exploration is a very daunting task. As we explored in a ...

Alpha Centauri, one of the two "Pointer Stars" that help stargazers find the Southern Cross in the Southern Hemisphere, may have a planet in orbit around it. If it does, the Webb Telescope will find ...

The appearance of the interstellar objects (ISOs) 'Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come from? Unfortunately, they ...