Scientists use the Webb Telescope to explore Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, searching for exoplanets. Discover how ...

In 2012, astronomers announced a tantalyzing find: the closest exoplanet to our solar system, an Earth-sized world orbiting Alpha Centauri B in a close orbit. As the closest star to the sun ...

The Alpha Centauri system is located 1.3 parsecs (24.9 trillion miles ... “This is a very green study in that it recycles existing data to draw new conclusions,” said Zhao. “By using the data in a ...

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 ...

Alpha Centauri is the star system closest to our Solar System, and it is likely that particles from it could be making their way over to or already be in our stellar neighborhood. To know what to ...

The work also reveals that our planetary system is capable of drawing in bodies much bigger ... which is close to the next star system, the Alpha Centauri system." Breaking space news, the latest ...

We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks," asteroids from the triple star system Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri is the closest star ...

But could humans or spacecraft ever reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our planet? Alpha Centauri is about 4.4 light-years (roughly 25 trillion miles, or 40 trillion kilometers ...

The Alpha Centauri system is located 1.3 parsecs ... "This is a very green study in that it recycles existing data to draw new conclusions," said Zhao. "By using the data in a different way ...