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 ...

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 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.) ...

Alpha Centauri: The Hollywood Star SystemAvatar In James Cameron's 2009 blockbuster, humans have traveled to the Alpha Centauri system in search of valuable minerals after exhausting Earth's resources ...

The star that the planet circles is Proxima Centauri, part of the Alpha Centauri system, a group of three stars that look like one bright star to the unaided eye and that together are the Sun's ...

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 ...

Proxima Centauri, part of the Alpha Centauri triple-star system, is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. (IEEC/Science-Wave/Guillem Ramisa) ...

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 ...