Despite being our most immediate neighbor, a trip to the triple star system isn't currently feasible. Though close in cosmic terms, the sun and the stars of Alpha Centauri are still separated by a ...

This means that despite Alpha Centauri being a mature system, its complex gravitational dynamics still result in the ejection of material that can potentially reach our solar system. The presence ...

On the one hand, this is a way of avoiding a much more boring game: it would have been far less novel if Alpha Centauri was being colonized by “Space America”, “Space China”, and “Space ...

Besides being an easy target — it's among the closest stars to the sun — astronomers have been eying our stellar neighbors for potential Earth-like planets. "This is Alpha Centauri ...

"If it made all sentient beings happy, then we should go." Though he just learned of the existence of Alpha Centauri’s and its alien planet, college student Pedro Navarro said he would still go ...

A tentative mission is currently being outlined that would see NASA send a spacecraft on an interstellar mission to explore the Alpha Centauri system. The proposed journey, which was revealed by ...

Alpha Centauri Bb (as the new exoplanet is called, the star being Alpha Centauri B) is the first Earth-sized body found orbiting a Sun-like star and was discovered by measuring the tiny wobbles of ...

is still being developed. But there's no physical reason to believe that such a spacecraft couldn't conduct a flyby mission of Alpha Centauri, Lubin said. This mission could behave much like the ...