Omega Centauri dominates the southern sky as the Milky Way's largest and brightest globular cluster, a dense sphere ...

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Humans are looking to colonize the rest of the universe in Netflix’s reimagining of the 1960s sci-fi TV show “Lost in Space.” Of course, it doesn’t go very well — hence the name of the show. When ...

In one of the most fascinating globular clusters in the Milky Way, Omega Centauri, astronomers have long suspected the ...

The hype surrounding Breakthrough Starshot’s $100-million gambit to launch laser powered nanocrafts into deep space is understandable. It’s a fascinating project and represents a bold new direction ...

NASA has announced plans for an interstellar mission, to search for life outside our solar system. The US space agency plans to send a robotic spacecraft to neighbouring star system Alpha Centauri in ...

If the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, does harbor rocky planets similar to Earth as new findings suggest, there exist a host of ways to get us there, in theory. Sending a person to Alpha ...

The recent discovery of an Earth-size alien planet right next door to us could help spark humanity's first true steps beyond our own solar system, scientists say. On Tuesday, a European team announced ...