An object dubbed 3I/ATLAS is only the third interloper from outside the Solar System seen in all of human history.
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The small worlds were particularly challenging to discover.
We may be able to send microchips to investigate Alpha Centauri c up close.
An astronomer suggests an idea to piggyback on the ambitious Breakthrough Starshot project that aims to send nano spacecraft to Alpha Centauri at a major fraction of the speed of light.
Building a tiny starship may be doable. The big challenge will be making sure it survives all the hazards in interstellar space.
Earlier this week, a Swiss-based team searching for planets outside our solar system (exoplanets) published a paper in Nature announcing the detection of an Earth-mass planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri…
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