Today we'll be looking at the ONLY realistic ways to get to Alpha Centauri. By our current technological capabilities, a ...

Scientists use the Webb Telescope to explore Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, searching for exoplanets. Discover how ...

Researchers announced Tuesday (Oct. 16) that the scorching-hot alien planet Alpha Centauri Bb, which is about as massive as Earth, resides in the three-star Alpha Centauri system. While no other ...

A new space telescope will search for habitable worlds orbiting stars in the Alpha Centauri system, a cluster of three stars comprising the sun's closest stellar neighbors. The mission named ...

A new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal has figured out what a habitable planet may look like in the Alpha Centauri star system, the closest start system to us at just 4.4 light-years.

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 ...

Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun, is probably shedding comets and asteroids into our solar system — and even producing a few meteors in our sky. Located just 4.3 light-years ...

"This is Alpha Centauri, our neighboring star," Milner said in a news conference yesterday (April 12). "But in space, neighboring does not mean very near. Alpha Centauri is over 4 light-years away ...

She can be reached via email. This isn't the first time the idea of visiting Alpha Centauri at that speed and on that timeline has been suggested. Last year, House of Representatives subcommittees ...

We now know that our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is host to at least two planets. But we're not sure if there are any planets near Alpha Centauri, a binary system just beyond that.

Scientists have discovered that the sun and its nearest twin star, Alpha Centauri A, share an odd solar quirk: a puzzling cool layer in their wispy, hot atmospheres. The different temperatures of ...

As the poster on NeoGAF mentions, EA let their trademark on Alpha Centauri lapse in 2009. It could be that they're simply reviving the trademark now that they've re-released the game through Good ...