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

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

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

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

If there is life on Proxima Centauri b, it could take the Extremely Large Telescope as little as 10 hours to detect its ...

Explore Earth and its relationships with a plethora of planets, stars and galaxies in its cosmic family, Laniakea, the ...

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

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

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

Along the way she meets Captain Samara, a Proxima Centauri spaceship pilot who offers solace, and becomes stranded in space ...

Are you into music that’s really out there, as in, space? Oakland is holding a performance of a science-fiction opera that ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s ...