Voyager 1, launched in 1977 and traveling for nearly 50 years, has not yet traveled the distance light covers in one day.

The universe beyond our Solar System is vast and filled with mysteries, and some of its most fascinating secrets lie just beyond our cosmic doorstep. While the Sun is the closest star to Earth, it's ...

The dream of traveling to distant stars and colonizing other worlds has captured human imagination for centuries. Yet when we confront the reality of cosmic distances, that dream feels both ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the galaxy – a technique that could be useful for interstellar missions ...

An international team led by the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Montreal published the first results today from the NIRPS ...

The closest star system to the Earth, the Alpha Centauri group, at a distance of 4.3 light-years, which includes Alpha Centauri A and B as well as the faint red dwarf Proxima Centauri. NASA Goddard ...

But Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star, with just a fraction of the sun's brightness and size. Proxima b has an incredibly tight orbit, with an entire year lasting just 11 days.