A team of physicists has outlined a possible way of sending probes deep into interstellar space ... it would take over 73,000 years to reach our nearest star, Proxima Centauri.

This, of course, has obvious advantages. Because Breakthrough Starshot’s payload is so small, reaching Proxima Centauri—the nearest star to us in the Alpha Centauri triple-star system—would be little ...

000mph fly-past of our closest star A Nasa spacecraft is safe and “in good health” after making the closest-ever approach to the sun, the space agency has revealed. The Parker solar probe (PSP ...