In Sine Fine, you’ll send out probes to nearby systems and build outposts that house fragments of your own AI consciousness.
Within a few dozen light years of the Sun, the sky is crowded with stars that could, in principle, host living worlds. I want ...
"It's like looking back in time in a sense, to that violent period of our solar system when it was less than a billion years old." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is what a recent study accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal ...
Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...
It took the last traces of Homo sapiens 10,000 desperate years to reach the semi-oxygenated rock orbiting Proxima Centauri. Widely known as a cosy bothy among the stars, it was a place where stellar ...
In 2026, Voyager 1, humanity's farthest reaching Energizer Bunny of a probe, will travel toward an almost comprehensible benchmark: being a full light-day away from Earth. According to NASA's data, ...
Webb's mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Science: Yinuo Han (Caltech), Ryan White ...
For centuries, humanity has crossed vast oceans using only the power of wind and sail. Now, that same principle could take us to the stars. This story explores how light itself through the ...
Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes, born in 1861, discovered Proxima Centauri in 1912, initially suspecting it as a third member of the Alpha Centauri system. At the time of this hypothesis, Alpha Centauri A ...