NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the solar system closest to ...

Travelling at the speed of an actual space probe (61,000 kilometres per hour), it would take 70,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri. If we managed to bend the rules of physics and get a ship moving ...

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.

Alpha Centauri pelts the solar system like a wet dog Wiegert and his colleague, University of Western Ontario Ph.D. student Cole Gregg, were inspired to conduct a study of these alien invaders by ...

This would make potential Alpha Centauri objects—if they really are somewhere in there—difficult to observe. Though, it wouldn’t be impossible.

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.

Unveiling the Cosmic Highway: Alpha Centauri’s Particles Making Their Way to Our Solar System The concept of a “ cosmic highway ” is not new, but this study marks a significant step in ...

Alpha Centauri is our closest stellar neighbor, a binary star system located just 4.376 light-years away. Despite its proximity, repeated astronomical surveys have failed to find hard evidence of ...

Two other planets known to orbit Proxima Centauri are visible in the image, too: Proxima b, a planet with about the same mass as Earth that orbits the star every 11 days and is within the ...

"I think that we will reach the Alpha Centauri system, with small probes launching in the decade of the 2040s, and thus arriving in the 2060s," Eubanks said.