At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

With the promise of revolutionizing our view of nearby star systems, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is poised to do ...

The site was chosen for its altitude, placing the telescope above as much atmospheric disturbance as possible. The air has a ...

The position of this Great Filter, as he named it, is critically important as we contemplate the future of humanity. If the ...

NASA has confirmed over 5,000 exoplanets, ranging from scorching gas giants to icy water worlds, some with the potential to ...

Cosmic speed limits can be a major inconvenience but they've rarely stopped science fiction in its tracks.

It will be essential for us as a species to maintain superiority, but [...] we are not the pinnacle of creation,” he says.

Alpha Centauri is a triple-star system, with one of its stars, Proxima Centauri, being the actual closest star to the Sun at 4.25 light-years away. Such star systems are not closed off ...