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Nonprofit wants to launch 80,000-year mission to Alpha Centauri in 2029 (video)

The Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a small, cheap probe to Alpha Centauri in the next few years, to inspire further exploration and help humanity contemplate its place in the universe.

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Best sci-fi strategy games, ranked

Forget the space battles, we're going planetside with our list of the most must-play sci-fi strategy games, packed full of aliens, robots, and futuristic armies.

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Spacecraft launcher named for robot in 'Interstellar' could help us reach another star system. Here's how

A new low-cost concept for interstellar travel combines solar power with a slingshot, but it would take a long time to reach the stars.

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'Why would you even want to go?': Readers react to the hypothetical 400-year voyage to Alpha Centauri

Would you leave Earth behind to travel to our nearest star system? Live Science readers reveal their thoughts about life among the stars.

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A real-life Pandora? Newfound 'disappearing' planet in our neighboring star system could have a habitable moon, just like the Avatar movies

The recent discovery of a potential gas giant circling the nearby star Alpha Centauri A has led to speculation that it may be orbited in turn by a habitable moon that could support life, just like in the "Avatar" movies.

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Would you board a spacecraft that takes 400 years to reach Alpha Centauri?

Travelling to our nearest star system is the ultimate one-way trip — but could you live your life among the stars? Let us know in our latest poll.

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'The most significant JWST finding to date': James Webb spots — then loses — a giant planet orbiting in the habitable zone of our closest sun-like star

Alpha Centauri may have a "disappearing planet', new James Webb Space Telescope observations hint. If confirmed, it could be the closest alien planet to Earth that orbits in its star's habitable zone.

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Proposed spacecraft could carry up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri

The design for a 36 mile long spacecraft, called Chrysalis, includes libraries, tropical forests and structural manufacturing facilities, all supported by artificial gravity.

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James Webb Space Telescope spots a potential new exoplanet just 4 light-years away from Earth

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest sun-like star to Earth.

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Astronomers have spied an interstellar object zooming through the Solar System

This week, astronomers spotted the third known interstellar visitor to our Solar System.

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The solar system is teeming with 1 million 'alien invaders' from Alpha Centauri

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha Centauri, new research has revealed.

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1 million 'interstellar objects' — each larger than the Statue of Liberty — may lurk in the outer solar system

New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri system, may already reside in the Oort Cloud, far from sight.

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It's been a decade since Endless Legend, the 4X genre's most inventive weirdo and the closest thing we've got to a modern Alpha Centauri, launched—we're long overdue another one

Now an independent studio again, I'm really hoping Amplitude is already on it.

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The sun is a 'runaway world collector' that can trap passing rogue planets

The sun could collect rogue planets and hold them at the outskirts of the solar system for millions of years, occasionally trading them with neighboring star Alpha Centauri.

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Will we ever reach Alpha Centauri, our closest neighboring star system?

Visiting our nearest stellar neighbor will take near-light-speed travel.

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An Upcoming Space Mission Could Find a Holy Grail Planet

Alpha Centauri is our closest stellar neighbor, a binary star system located just 4.376 light-years away.

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Does Alpha Centauri have habitable zone planets? Webb could settle the debate

Astronomers are betting valuable observing time on the search for a world in the star's habitable zone.

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One futuristic alien technology could confirm the existence of advanced life in space

Humanity has barely scratched the surface when it comes to cosmic exploration, including our backyard. Self-replicating robots could reveal more about humanity's closest neighbors.

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