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

The triple-star system Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to Earth. But could humans ever travel there?

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

Alpha Centauri is having a moment: Our mysterious neighboring star system has been seeing a surge of scientific interest lately, and for good reason.

While the actual Alpha Centauri system may not be subject to unpredictable orbital dynamics, the so-called "three-body problem" has enjoyed a long history in the world of physics. Two bodies in motion ...

The closest star, Proxima Centauri, also hosts an exoplanet that scientists believe could have the conditions necessary for life. But reaching this star system would be no small feat.

"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 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.

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.

Our sun's closest star system, Alpha Centauri, is "almost certainly" home to small Earth-like planets capable of harbouring alien life, scientists have claimed.

Group 1-winning siblings Alpha Centauri and Alpine Star sold for €6 million apiece, equaling the record price for a Thoroughbred at an Irish public auction not once but twice.

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 ...