Articles about Alpha Centauri

Breakthrough Watch and ESO kick off the search for more planets at Alpha Centauri

The European Southern Observatory and the billionaire-backed Breakthrough Watch program say they have achieved first light with a new observing… Read More

Project Blue tries again with crowdfunding campaign for planet-watching telescope

Project Blue is launching a second try to attract crowdfunding for a space telescope designed to study planets in the… Read More

Breakthrough Starshot tests smallest space probes for interstellar mission

Breakthrough Starshot says it’s been testing prototype interstellar spacecraft no bigger than postage stamps in orbit for the past month,… Read More

How do you stop a speeding starship?

Millions of dollars are being spent on a scheme to speed up swarms of tiny sail-equipped probes to 20 percent… Read More

Very Large Telescope joins Breakthrough search for Alpha Centauri’s planets

One of the most powerful observing instruments on Earth, the Very Large Telescope, will join the search for potentially habitable… Read More

Video: How will we get to Alpha Centauri? Researchers work on an antimatter drive

Project Blue’s scientists still have to raise more than $800,000 over the next 15 days to reach their initial crowdfunding goal… Read More

Project Blue kicks off $1 million crowdfunding campaign to seek out Alpha Centauri’s alien Earths

How much would you pay to find out whether Alpha Centauri’s twin suns possess blue planets like Earth? Project Blue… Read More

Shields up! Scientists tweak design of Alpha Centauri probes to minimize damage

The scientists behind the Breakthrough Starshot mission are already fine-tuning the design for their nano-probes to increase the odds they’ll… Read More

Proxima Centauri b confirmed! Potentially habitable planet orbits the star next door

The rumors you’ve heard are mostly true: Scientists say the star that’s closest to our solar system has a planet that… Read More

Billionaire Yuri Milner unveils $100 million start on Starshot mission to Alpha Centauri

Fueled by an initial $100 million from Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, a team laden with big names laid out a multi-decade… Read More