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) from ...

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. The closest star, Proxima Centauri, also hosts an ...

Spacecraft flying by the Alpha Centauri star system could see whether the planet circling Proxima Centauri has signs of extraterrestrial life. (Image credit: Courtesy of Space Initiatives Inc.) ...

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 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 ...

As mentioned above, orbiting the sun at a distance of 3.81 light-years would bring a captured rogue planet awfully close to Alpha Centauri, which can catch its own rogues and hold them at a distance.

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 ...

Caption: PR Photo 07e/03 shows the location of Alpha Centauri A and B, Proxima Centauri and the Sun in the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram ...

LinuxWorld (US) Life on a brand new planet isn't what you expected it to be. Humanity may have avoided Earth's destruction, but when the Starship Unity arrives in the Alpha Centauri system after ...

This image shows the closest stellar system to the Sun, the bright double star Alpha Centauri AB and its distant and faint companion Proxima Centauri. (ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)/D) Social Sharing ...