Yale astronomers have taken a fresh look at the nearby Alpha Centauri star system. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

This star system is binary and hosts an exoplanet ... Notably, scientists have noticed signs of a planet being in Alpha Centauri A.

ST. PETERSBURG, September 24. /ITAR-TASS/. St. Petersburg astronomers have spotted one more planet circling a star in the Alpha Centauri system just 4.36 light-years away from the Solar System.

But could humans or spacecraft ever reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our planet? Alpha Centauri is about 4.4 ...

Only the three-star Alpha Centauri star system, which is 4.1 light-years distant, is closer. In 2016, astronomers found a planet orbiting the nearest star to Earth in this system, called Proxima ...

An earth-sized planet has been found orbiting Alpha Centauri, the star nearest to the earth at over four light years away, but which would still take ... Advisory Alert: It has come to our ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?

Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth ... our sun that many experts speculate that its solar system might contain habitable planets. But Alpha Centauri is about 4.3 light-years ...

A team of physicists has outlined a possible way of sending probes deep into interstellar space within a reasonable timescale ...

This network of telescopes monitored the star system continuously for two months ... ‘Breakthrough Watch’, to hunt for other planets in the Alpha Centauri system. Observations began in May 2019.

Starchips may be propelled by lasers to the nearby Alpha Centauri star system within ... other stars in the system. Proxima Centauri is thought to harbor an Earth-size planet, called Proxima ...