Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own, has always intrigued astronomers. Consisting of three stars— Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri —this system is moving ...

Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth, is moving toward us at 79,000 kilometers per hour (49,709 mph). It won’t reach its nearest point for another 27,700 years, but some of its ...

Alpha Centauri is also moving towards us, and in some 28,000 years from now, it'll reach its closest point at a distance of a little over three light years away, raising the odds of an ...

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha Centauri, new research has revealed.

The closest stellar system to us is the triple system Alpha Centauri. It’s currently creeping closer to our Solar System at 79,000 km per hour (about 49,709 mph), and should be at its closest ...

If Alpha Centauri has an Oort cloud of distant comets as the sun does, about a million of these objects larger than a football field are now in our solar system, astronomers Cole Gregg and Paul ...

Alpha Centauri Bb was discovered using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), which detects the minuscule shifts in the light from stars caused by changes in how fast they are ...

At the edge of the solar system, there could be around one million interstellar celestial bodies with a diameter of at least 100 meters orbiting the sun that originally came from Alpha Centauri ...

Floating 4.4 light-years from Earth is the Alpha Centauri star system, a trio of stars labeled Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri. At a distance of just 24.9 trillion miles ...

For the USS Enterprise, that means a warp engine, but scientists back on 21 st century Earth are working out ways to travel to the nearest star system—Alpha Centauri—with technology that’s a ...

Though it appears as a single bright speck in the sky, Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system, with several suspected exoplanets, including a super-Earth called Proxima Centauri b, with more ...

Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to our own, lying around 4.3 light-years away. New research has indicated that, if Alpha Centauri ejects as much material as the solar system, then as ...