Si tratta del sistema stellare più vicino al nostro, noto come alfa Centauri, ossia la stella principale della costellazione del Centauro, visibile nei cieli australi. Questo è un gruppo di tre stelle ...

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are designing ways to propel payloads to the nearest star system (Alpha Centauri) using ...

But could humans or spacecraft ever reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our planet? Alpha Centauri is about 4.4 ...

Breakthrough Starshot focuses on a tiny design with gigantic solar "wings" that would allow them to ride a beam of light to Alpha Centauri. However, for practical purposes, a probe that small will ...