But could humans or spacecraft ever reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our planet? Alpha Centauri is about 4.4 light-years (roughly 25 trillion miles, or 40 trillion kilometers ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new ...

New research suggests that Alpha Centauri could host a Super Jupiter in a stable orbit. The research into it has been done by ...

ST. PETERSBURG, September 24. /ITAR-TASS/. St. Petersburg astronomers have spotted one more planet circling a star in the Alpha Centauri system just 4.36 light-years away from the Solar System.

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star system, which can host potentially-habitable planets. Our nearest ...

It appears to move because it’s so close to the solar system. Only the three-star Alpha Centauri star system, which is 4.1 light-years distant, is closer. In 2016, astronomers found a planet ...

A novel theoretical model based on universal expansion and star formation suggests that our universe might not have the ...

Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth, is home to three stars, one of which is so tantalizingly similar to our sun that many experts speculate that its solar system might contain ...

will join the search for potentially habitable planets around the Alpha Centauri star system. The survey will… Read More GUADALAJARA, Mexico – A multimillion-dollar campaign to look for ...

To reach Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighboring star system, the Breakthrough Starshot initiative proposes to launch a fleet of tiny spacecraft, each weighing a gram or less, and accelerate them ...

will join the search for potentially habitable planets around the Alpha Centauri star system. The survey will… Read More The scientists behind the Breakthrough Starshot mission are already fine ...

If you want to go as far as our nearest star, Alpha Centauri, you’ll need to travel even faster. Even going at the speed of light, it would take four years to get there. Thus, a probe intending ...