Artist’s concept of a rocky planet similar to Earth in the Alpha Centauri double star system. Are there really any potentially habitable planets there? A new study shows what such a planet might look ...

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. When ...

Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to our sun. It’s 4.3 light-years away, just a hop and a skip in contrast to a distance of 100,000 light-years across our entire home galaxy, the Milky Way. A ...

Fermi Explorer, a proposed low-cost private mission to Alpha Centauri, seeks to address a question that’s already been ...

Alpha Centauri is often described as our nearest neighboring star system, but that label can be misleading. Even at its closest point, the system is more than four light-years away — a distance that ...

This isn’t the first time a group has aimed for Alpha Centauri. In 2016, a $100 million project backed by tech entrepreneur Yuri Milner announced a plan to reach the star system in 20 years using a ...

Johnston is in the midst of scaling up Starcloud, working through technical issues, and raising hundreds of millions of dollars. So he’s pretty busy. But Johnston also wants to send a mission to the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has given us this stunning view of the bright Alpha Centauri A (on the left) and Alpha Centauri B (on the right), shining like huge cosmic headlamps in the dark.

In humanity's search for life outside our Solar System, one of the best places to look is Alpha Centauri, a system containing the three nearest stars beyond the Sun. A new study that has involved ...