{
  "id": 4956821,
  "title": "Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the Sun's nearest star system, by 2029, using a trajectory discovered by PSI's AI system (Michelle Kim/MIT Technology Review)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/fermi-explorer-mission-plans-to-launch-a-spacecraft-to-alpha-centauri",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-01T22:55:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/01/1143247/ai-interstellar-journey-alpha-centauri/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}