Getting a spacecraft to another star is a monumental challenge. However, that doesn't stop people from working on it. The ...

Alpha Centauri, located approximately 4.37 light-years (1 light-year is the distance light travels in one year, about 9.46 ...

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 ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its ...

Yale astronomers have taken a fresh look at the nearby Alpha Centauri star system. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be resolved? Could a decades-long debate about the ...