Rigil Kentaurus is gravitationally locked in a binary system with Toliman (Alpha Centauri B), the second-brightest star of Alpha Centauri, and completes an orbit in 22 Earth days. According to ...

Alpha Centauri has long fascinated astronomers as the closest star system to our own. Located just 4.37 light-years away, ...

But the three-star system — comprising Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B and a faint red dwarf star Proxima Centauri — also presents enormous opportunities for furthering space research ...

The star system closest to our own sun hosts a planet with roughly Earth's mass and may harbor other alien worlds as well, a new study reports.Astronomers detected the alien planet around the ...

We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. The instrument astronomers used to discover the small rocky planet circling the star Alpha Centauri B that was announced this week was not a glitzy new ...

It contains not just one star resembling our sun but two of them, called Alpha Centauri A and B. Star A is the sun’s near twin in temperature, size, luminosity and composition; star B is just a ...

3.6 million: The distance, in miles, at which the planet orbits its parent star Alpha Centauri B. This is much closer to the star than Mercury is to our sun. Earth is 93 million miles from the sun.

Our nosy neighbor happens to be a triple star system made up of two Sun-like stars, Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, and a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri. As it travels through the ...

Robot B-9 and Jonathan Harris as Dr. Smith on the set of "Lost ... Star Trek most often concerned itself with worlds much further away than Alpha Centauri, but the star system does play a role in one ...

Robot B-9 and Jonathan Harris as Dr. Smith on the set of "Lost ... Star Trek most often concerned itself with worlds much further away than Alpha Centauri, but the star system does play a role in one ...