Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri was created by 31-year-old designer Brian Reynolds and his colleagues at Firaxis Games in Hunt Valley. A rising star in the game industry, Reynolds is a self-taught ...

Alpha Centauri C, better known as Proxima Centauri, is a smidge closer than the bright binary at 4.24 light years. This illustration compares the relative sizes of the sun, Alpha Centauri A and B ...

A European space telescope has revealed that the nearby star Alpha Centauri A, the closest sun-like star, ... The observatory launched in May 2009 to map the universe in the far-infrared and ...

Alpha Centauri: The Sun Nearest to Ours Could Be Hiding Planets Like Earth. Published Dec 19, 2017 at 5:40 AM EST Updated Dec 19, 2017 at 1:47 PM EST.

Alpha Centauri is host to two sun-like stars, and a third star – the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, which is already believed to have one planet in a Goldilocks orbit, discovered in 2016.

Proxima Centauri is a little closer than the other two stars at 4.24 light years away, making it the nearest neighbor to the sun. Advertisement Also Read: 34 Streaming TV Shows You Can Binge Watch ...

Alpha Centauri is, loosely, a system of three stars that are the closest neighbors to Earth. Proxima Centauri is the dimmest and the closest of the three, at just 4.22 light years away.

Why It Matters – Finding any planet in orbit around Alpha Centauri A would be a major coup for astronomers, especially one in the Sun-like star’s habitable zone.

The three stars of the Alpha Centauri system are the nearest to Earth beyond the sun. The two main stars are the binary pair Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B. They are about 4.37 light-years ...

Humans are looking to colonize the rest of the universe in Netflix’s reimagining of the 1960s sci-fi TV show “Lost in Space.” Of course, it doesn’t go very well — hence the name of the show.

We don’t really have the technology yet to send humans that far, either; on a conventional rocket, traveling at about 17,600 miles per hour, it would take about 165,000 years for humans reach ...