Alpha Centauri has long fascinated astronomers as the closest star system to our own. Located just 4.37 light-years away, ...

Here’s how it works. A new space telescope mission unveiled today (Nov. 16) will look for habitable planets in the Alpha Centauri system, our sun's closest stellar neighbors. The new mission ...

A new initiative called "Project Blue" aims to spy on our interstellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, to capture an unprecedented visible-light image of any Earth-like planets that might orbit there.

A new space telescope will search for habitable worlds orbiting stars in the Alpha Centauri system, a cluster of three stars comprising the sun's closest stellar neighbors. The mission named ...

A simulated view of the Alpha Centauri system from through the lens of the telescope. Breakthrough Initiatives Usually, these irregularities indicate the gravitational influence of orbiting ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning view of the bright Alpha Centauri A (on the left) and Alpha Centauri B (on the right). ESA/NASA Our nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri ...

Alpha Centauri A is just 4.4 light years away, and astronomers have studied it thoroughly over the years — but if there’s a planet orbiting the nearby star, no telescope on Earth or in space ...

Alpha Centauri is the star system closest to our ... orbit will take it too far for any spacecraft to reach or any telescope to observe. But that doesn’t mean we have no interstellar subjects ...

but none of the large bodies is close enough for telescopes to see. Still, small particles from Alpha Centauri probably reach Earth’s atmosphere, where they burn up. Gregg and Wiegert estimate ...

Only the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system ... The researchers used data from the Hawaii island-based Gemini Telescope and Chile-based Very Large Telescope to confirm the presence of ...