Alpha Centauri: Last News

Starfield is now less than a month away from releasing, and in the run-up to launch, Bethesda has shared a timeline that covers 300 years of history in the sci-fi game’s universe.As visible on Bethesda’s website, the timeline begins with humanity first arriving on Mars in 2050, and runs up to 2328 – just two years before Starfield takes place in 2330.As for what the timeline includes, after landing on Mars it takes humans another 50 years to begin living in space. Settlers then make it to the Alpha Centauri star system by 2156 and establish one of the game’s major factions, the United Colonies (UC).However, 2188 sees the foundation of rival faction The Freestar Collective, which ultimately goes to war with the UC in 2196.

“Danger, Will Robinson!” Lost in Space is unfortunately not returning for a fourth season. To the dismay of fans, the rather rushed finale of the beloved science fiction TV show inspired by The Swiss Family Robinson will not grace our small screens with any new episodes.

Doctor Who is back as Jodie Whittaker’s Time Lord takes on classic villains the Sea Devils!In an Easter special, the aquatic foes return for the first time since 1984 as they bid to take over Earth.But they aren’t the only madcap monsters that have featured in the show over the years.Forget the Daleks – here, James Moore recalls the sci-fi hit’s freakiest creations, including Peter Kay as Abzorbaloff.• The Kandyman: Looking like Liquorice Allsorts mascot Bertie Bassett, this murderous robot, left, used sweets to dispatch victims. It appeared in 1988 with the seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy.• The Voord: Basically blokes in diving suits and helmets described as making them look like “evil Teletubbies.” When they debuted in 1964, one actor tripped over his flipper – the footage was left in.What was your favourite Doctor Who villain? Have your say below• Scribble Creature: Tenth Doctor David Tennant and Rose Tyler, played by Billie Piper, encountered an aggressive drawing that came to life – the product of an alien-possessed child.• The Quarks: These crazy cuboid robots from 1968 were played by three schoolboys and made giggling noises before running out of power.• Alpha Centauri: This one-eyed oversized green bug has a puzzling gender and squeaky voice.

star systems is likely to remain science fiction for a very long to come.The distances involved are so huge that even our fastest spacecraft would take thousands of years to reach even the nearest stars to our Sun.But a groundbreaking initiative using spacecraft powered not by rockets, but by lasers, could potentially take a fleet of spacecraft to our nearest star within one human lifetime.The craft could used to perform a fly-by of Proxima Centauri, sending back data about its potentially habitable planets.There’s just one catch: the spacecraft will be smaller than an iPhone.The project, called Breakthrough Starshot, will enable a swarm of wafter-thin craft carrying cameras, navigation, and communication equipment together with a tiny power supply and a large “sail” made of reflective material.The mini-starships would be propelled into orbit inside a traditional rocket booster, before being deployed and accelerated to up to 20 per cent of the speed of light using an ultra-powerful laser trained on their sails.At those speeds, they could potentially reach the Alpha Centauri system in about 20 years.Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, was one of the project’s early supporters of the Breakthrough concept is based on technology either already available or likely to be available in the near future,” he said in 2016. “But as with any moonshot, there are major hurdles to be solved.”The biggest challenge would be building a laser powerful enough for the job.

Netflix has dropped the final trailer for the third season of Lost in Space and it looks explosive.

planet within a habitable orbit of one of Earth's closest stars.The body, which has yet to even be named and is being referred to currently as “planet candidate”, is in Alpha Centauri, a binary star system 4.37 light-years away from Earth.In a paper published in Nature Communications on Wednesday, an international team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile found a bright thermal imaging signal coming from the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A.A habitable zone covers the range of distances from a star at which liquid water could exist on a world's surface, an indicator that it could harbour alien life.The signal was derived through Near Earths in the Alpha Center Region (NEAR), a $3

By Nellie Andreeva