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Planet discovered around Alpha Centauri A: The James Webb Telescope has found clear evidence of an exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, our sun's closest twin.
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Would you dare to take a 400‑year one‑way trip to Alpha Centauri on this ship?: Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to Earth and one that has been ...
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Paid articlePaywall This week’s new questions: If aliens with technology similar to ours lived on a planet orbiting Proxima centauri (the next-nearest star) ...
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AI Plots 80,000-Year Voyage Toward Alpha Centauri: The tiny spacecraft would follow an AI-determined trajectory to Alpha Centauri
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AI Plots 80,000-Year Voyage Toward Alpha Centauri: The tiny spacecraft would follow an AI-determined trajectory to Alpha Centauri
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How AI plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri: The Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star by the end of 2029 ...
technologyreview.com/2026/09/01/1143247/ai-interstellar-journey-alpha-centauri/

If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel?: The team behind Starcloud's orbital data centers has a new high-risk space project: ...
techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/if-space-data-centers-feel-far-fetched-why-not-interstellar-travel/
This tiny space mission wants to reach Alpha Centauri, in about 80,000 years: The Fermi Explorer Mission aims to launch in just three years and arrive at Alpha ...
techspot.com/news/113697-private-group-proposes-low-cost-mission-alpha-centauri.html

Alpha Centauri als Ziel: Neuer Lichtantrieb ermöglicht interstellare Flüge: Ein neuartiger Lichtantrieb aus winzigen Metajets soll interstellare Reisen enorm ...
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Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Get to Alpha Centauri in Just 20 Years
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Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Get to Alpha Centauri in Just 20 Years
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Alpha Centauri achievable in 20 years – | with the power of light: Researchers have developed a light propulsion system with true 3D control for the first time – ...
telepolis.de/article/Alpha-Centauri-in-20-Jahren-erreichbar-mit-der-Kraft-des-Lichts-11270070.html

A little loss is always there: No other star system is closer to us than Alpha Centauri - | all the more astonishing that it is still unknown how many exoplanets ...
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Our nearest stellar neighbor may have a habitable world: James Webb Telescope may have found a new planet in Alpha Centauri's habitable zone ...
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Scientists Design Huge Spacecraft That Could Carry 2,400 Colonists to Alpha Centauri
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Like in "Avatar": James Webb Telescope Discovers Possible "Pandora" Planet near Alpha Centauri
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NASA’s Webb May Have Found A Planet Around The Closest Sun-Like Star: NASA’s Webb telescope found strong evidence for a Saturn-mass planet orbiting Alpha ...
forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2025/08/09/nasas-webb-may-have-found-a-planet-around-the-closest-sun-like-star/

A planet from the Avatar movies may exist in real life: One of the brightest stars in the night sky seems to be orbited by a planet like Jupiter ...
npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5493270/planet-alpha-centauri-avatar-movies-gas-giant-habitable-zone

Alpha Centauri: James Webb Telescope Discovers Possible "Pandora" Planet: Science fiction's wildest dreams could come true in the Alpha Centauri system ...
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Scientists Appear to Have Spotted an Unknown Planet in Nearest Star System to Earth
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A giant planet may orbit our closest sunlike neighbor: Alpha Centauri A, four light-years from Earth, may host a gas giant. If confirmed ...
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