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 ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If Alpha Centauri were to lose as much material as is assumed for our solar system, then around one million larger objects would have to have reached the Oort Cloud at the edge of the solar system ...

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.) ...