Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a new Earth-like exoplanet, Proxima b, located in the Alpha Centauri system. This ...

Now a just-announced collaboration called Project Blue has been founded to launch a lightweight, low-overhead space telescope, to look at the two largest stars in that system, Alpha Centauri A and B.

The Centauri system contains a few more stars, though. Now, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) has gotten an upgrade that will help it scan those other stars for evidence of exoplanets (Opens in a new ...

Only the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system, about 4 light-years away, are closer. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles.

Project Blue is a space science mission utilizing new developments in advanced optical telescope design to discover potentially habitable exoplanets in Earth’s neighboring star system, Alpha ...

Compared to the sun, Alpha Centauri A is of the same stellar type, G2, and slightly bigger, ... And they are also among the prime targets in the hunt for habitable exoplanets.

New research has indicated that, if Alpha Centauri ejects as much material as the solar system, then as many as one million space rocks larger than 328 feet (100 meters) wide could be lurking in ...

Alpha Centauri is a mature star system, at 5 billion years old. This means that most of the material in this system’s protoplanetary disk has likely already dissipated, ...

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, ...

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 racing toward us at 0.007 light-years per century (80,000 kilometers per hour) and will be closest 28,000 years from now, when it will be 3.2 light-years from Earth.