The closest exoplanets to the Solar System are around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. This little star is orbiting two bigger Sun-like stars, which are known as Alpha Centauri A and B. For over a ...

There, over a thousand passengers who have been living in the airborne habitat (the descendants of a crew that launched from ...

Join us on a journey to the Alpha Centauri system,the closest star system to Earth and one of the most promising locations in ...

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.

At solar maximum, typically more than 100 sunspots cover less than one percent of the Sun’s surface on average. The new study finds that Proxima Centauri undergoes a similar cycle lasting seven ...

According to the researchers, there's about a 0.5% chance that one of these wayward planets might have formed in our own system and ended up in the Oort cloud as it drifted away from the sun.

A new catalog of 126 worlds beyond the solar system contains a cornucopia of newly discovered planets — some have extreme and exotic natures, but others could potentially support life as we know it.