‘Far Centaurus’ In this 1944 short story by A. E. van Vogt, a team of astronauts set off on a centuries-long expedition to Alpha Centauri. To survive the trip, they hibernated in their slow ...

Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star, is the smallest of the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system about four light-years away, and it also hosts an exoplanet called Proxima b. The Earth-sized ...

Originally from the moon called Tiber in the Alpha Centauri system ... we’re going to count the colonists from the Manswell Expedition in Mass Effect 2. Privately funded by a billionaire ...

Alpha Centauri has long fascinated astronomers as the closest star system to our own. Located just 4.37 light-years away, this stellar trio offers a prime target for hunting exoplanets.

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 ...

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 ...

Lasers could be used to propel tiny spacecraft toward Alpha Centauri, scientists suggest. | Credit: Artist's impression by Michel Lamontagne, courtesy of Space Initiatives Inc. Our space ...

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.

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 ...