In the vastness of the universe, distances between celestial bodies are mind-boggling, with even light taking thousands of ...

Alpha Centauri is a star system with components 4.2 to 4.4 light-years from Earth and comprises three stars. It is the closest star system to the solar system, and one of its stars is the nearest ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just unveiled the clearest image ever captured of Proxima B, a potentially habitable ...

After Alpha Centauri, the next-closest sun-like star is 2.5 times farther away and would require a telescope roughly 2.5 times larger in order to be viewed at the same level of detail. Get the ...

Star Trek most often concerned itself with worlds much further away than Alpha Centauri, but the star system does play a role in one of the more important elements of the canon. For a brief time, the ...

Alpha Centauri is about 4.4 light-years (roughly 25 trillion miles, or 40 trillion kilometers) from Earth and is home to three separate stars. The closest star, Proxima Centauri, also hosts an ...

Alpha Centauri is host to two sun-like stars, and a third star – the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, which is already believed to have one planet in a Goldilocks orbit, discovered in 2016. Read more ...

"Alpha Centauri" is getting the boot. The longstanding star name has been displaced by its ancient counterpart in a new International Astronomical Union (IAU) catalog that designates 227 official ...

Alpha Centauri is the brightest star in the southern sky and is just 4.3 light years from Earth – it would still take 40,000 years to travel there with existing rocket technology.

The “Breakthrough Starshot” space mission to Alpha Centauri inpsired us to revisit the imagined trips to the star system in books, comics, TV, movies and video games.

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) from ...