Tau Ceti is the star system of choice for Marathon, Project Hail Mary, and Directive 8020, among others. Here's why.

The table below shows the Resources available on other Planets and Moons within the same System as Tau Ceti VIII: ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Tau Ceti, a G-class star about seventy-eight ...

Mildly encouraging news for Earthlings hoping to escape the scorched ruins of our own planet: A team of astronomers has found evidence for four Earth-sized (ish) worlds orbiting tau Ceti, a Sun-like ...

Four Earth-sized planets orbit our nearest sun-like star, Tau Ceti, according to a new study from an international team of astronomers. With masses as low as 1.7 the mass of Earth, the exoplanets are ...

As the search continues for Earth-size planets orbiting at just the right distance from their star, a region termed the habitable zone, the number of potentially life-supporting planets grows. In two ...

Tau Ceti - the closest star of a type similar to our own Sun - has been found to have at least five planets orbiting it. Scientists say one of those planets sits neatly in the "goldilocks" habitable ...

A nearby sun-like star called Tau Ceti may contain a system of five planets, including one that orbits at the right distance to have life. Tau Ceti has roughly three-quarters the mass of our own sun ...

Star system Tau Ceti has long been used in science fiction as a very likely place to have life due to its proximity to Earth and the star's sun-like characteristics. Since December 2012 Tau Ceti has ...