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Scientific American Is It a Planet? Astronomers Spy Promising Potential World around Alpha Centauri The candidate could be a “warm Neptune” or a mirage. Either way, it signals the dawn of a revolution in astronomy Print Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighboring star system, rises above a unit of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. Credit: Y. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO Advertisement For the first time ever, astronomers may have glimpsed lig...

Potential Saturn-sized exoplanet with a mass 50 times of Earth that may be suitable for life is discovered 4.4 light years from our planet Scientists and the Breakthrough Watch/NEAR have developed new capabilities to directly image planets that could potentially harbor life within the habitable Using the new system, they discovered a potential  exoplanet in a star system The data suggests it is a Neptune- to Saturn-sized planet in Alpha Centauri The system is capable of blocking unwanted noise...

  Since 1995 when exoplanet explorers from the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz –who were recently awarded half of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of a planet orbiting a sunlike star named 51 Pegasi– thousands of extrasolar planets have been found, including potentially Earth-like worlds, along with bizarre objects that bear no resemblance to any of the planets in our solar system. Twenty-Six Years Later… Twenty-six years later, it is ...

Astronomers hopes raised by glimpse of possible new planet Ian Sample Science editor Astronomers have glimpsed what may be a previously unknown planet circling one of the closest stars to Earth. Researchers spotted the bright dot near Alpha Centauri A, one of a pair of stars that swing around each other so tightly they appear as one in the southern constellation of Centaurus. The stars form what is called a binary system 4.37 light years away, a mere stone’s throw in cosmic te...

A method to observe planets around nearby stars directly may have hit paydirt on its first outing, with a possible planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Ce

 E-Mail IMAGE: Alpha Centauri A (left) and Alpha Centauri B imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Located in the constellation The Centaur, at a distance of 4.3 light-years, the pair of stars... view more  Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Imaging planets orbiting around nearby stars, which could potentially harbour life, has become a possibility thanks to the progress made in observational methods by an international team of astronomers. First candidate: Alpha Centauri, a system similar to our...

When in 2017 a mysterious object hurtled through our solar system, Avi Loeb admits he was primed to see it as alien technology. But it was the ‘anti-alien’ backlash that shocked him the most, writes Becky Ferreira

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10 Proposed Solutions To The Problems Of Interstellar Travel Right now, interstellar travel and colonization is pretty unlikely. Basic laws of physics suggest that it just can’t be done, and for many people, that means it’ll never be done. Those people are no fun. Others are more idealistic, looking for ways to break the laws of physics (or at least find a loophole) that will allow us to travel to distant stars and explore whole new worlds. 10 Alcubierre Warp Drive Anything called a “warp...

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