Breakthrough Starshot says it’s been testing prototype interstellar spacecraft no bigger than postage stamps in orbit for the past month,… Read More University of Washington astronomer Rory Barnes ...

NASA wants to send a spacecraft to Proxima Centauri, Earth’s nearest stellar neighbor, in the next 50 years or so. Scientists from the U.S. space agency recently presented a paper at the American ...

Tiny spacecraft could actually study Proxima b from orbit rather than just zoom past the newfound, potentially habitable alien world, a new study suggests. In April 2016, cosmologist Stephen Hawking, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. "We are earthlings," says French director Alice Winocour. For her latest film, Proxima, she spent two years at the European Space Agency ...

Proxima is, in the broadest sense, about a mission to Mars. But neither the mission nor Mars itself are the source of the film’s tantalizingly muted energy; we have Eva Green to thank for much of that ...