NASA states It’s a protostar (a young star gathering mass from its environment) surrounded by a massive planet-forming disc.
The 9th Interstellar Symposium at UT Austin will bring together scientists, creatives, and industry experts to discuss the ...
An orb with twin suns, a star twice as old as our sun... see how new finds with surprising parallels in fiction are rewriting our understanding of the universe.
A team led by Prof. Yin Huajie from the Hefei Institute of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a solar-powered system that produces green hydrogen directly from ...
A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX rocket. By Kenneth Chang A SpaceX rocket launched on Wednesday morning ...
What if we could leave the solar system? In this video, we explore what a journey to Alpha Centauri would look like, how long it would take, and what we might discover when we arrive.
With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...
In today’s episode, we explore our nearest stellar neighbors: the Alpha Centauri system and its dim red dwarf companion, Proxima Centauri. From the rocky world Proxima b possibly in the habitable zone ...
The earliest images of 3I/ATLAS, newly uncovered by Michigan State University, reveal how the interstellar object evolved as it traveled through our solar system—and how other distant solar systems ...
Astronomers have been racing to get a better look at 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object screaming into our solar system from far beyond. Now, as the BBC reports, new observations by the Gemini South ...
Alpha Centauri is our nearest neighboring star system at just over four light years away and is made up of three stars. Stars A and B orbit each other while the closest and smallest star C orbits both ...