But could humans or spacecraft ever reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our planet? Alpha Centauri is about 4.4 ...

Though it appears as a single bright speck in the sky, Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system, with several suspected exoplanets, including a super-Earth called Proxima Centauri b ...

We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks," asteroids from the triple star system Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri is the closest star ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

A new study led by Western astrophysicists Cole Gregg and Paul Wiegert recommends Alpha Centauri—the next closest solar system to ours—is a great place to start, highlighting how and why it's ...

A new collaboration between Brown University and TU Delft has brought us closer to interstellar travel using light-powered ...

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 ...

Researchers estimate over a million interstellar objects from Alpha Centauri may already be lurking in the icy shell surrounding our solar system. Stars don’t hoard their material—Gregg and ...

Interstellar materials have been identified in our Solar System, but their origin remains a mystery. A recent study suggests that the Alpha Centauri system, our stellar neighbor, could be their source ...