Proxima Centauri, just 4.24 light-years from Earth, is the closest known star to our Sun. Though it’s the smallest member of ...

Join us on a journey to the Alpha Centauri system,the closest star system to Earth and one of the most promising locations in ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977 and traveling for nearly 50 years, has not yet traveled the distance light covers in one day.

An international team led by the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Montreal published the first results today from the NIRPS ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the galaxy – a technique that could be useful for interstellar missions ...

Answer 17: A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in space. A meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere. A meteorite is a meteoroid that survives passage ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been used to demonstrate simple interstellar navigation by measuring the parallax of just ...

A new milestone in space exploration was reached today with the publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics of the first ...

A new study reveals that a common human technology may be quietly broadcasting our presence to alien civilizations—without us ...

Radar from airports and military systems may expose Earth to alien detection. These signals could be used to find intelligent ...

Aliens could spot Earth because of airports such as Heathrow and Gatwick, according to new research. Radar systems used by ...