(Credit: Wikimedia Commons) With the announcement today of an Earth-sized planet orbiting in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, Earthlings' attention is focused once again on our nearest stellar ...

Diminutive Barnards Star is closer in size to Jupiter than to the Sun. Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us. A study proposes that Alpha Centauri could be ...

The detection of a large interstellar object in 2017 named 'Oumuamua was a landmark discovery. Figuring out where the wayward traveler came from, though, is another challenge entirely, especially ...

Reaching Alpha Centauri within a single human lifetime has long sounded like science fiction, yet a new generation of nuclear ...

The search for 'another Earth' has been a staple of science fiction for decades, and now a group of astronomers hope to discover one on our galactic doorstep. Alpha Centauri is a triple star system ...

Astronomers have come up with an ambitious observational technique to detect Earth-sized and perhaps habitable planets orbiting one of our nearest neighbour stars. The triple-star system called Alpha ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks ...

A planet orbiting Alpha Centauri would have two or even three suns, because the star system is made up of a trio of stars (Image: Michael S. Helfenbein) Nasa is preparing to launch a mission which ...

Yale astronomers have taken a fresh look at the nearby Alpha Centauri star system and found new ways to narrow the search for habitable planets there. According to a study led by Professor Debra ...

Our solar system’s nearest neighbour could be home to small, rocky planets much like Earth, according to a new study. A new analysis of the nearby Alpha Centauri system has revealed there may not be ...

(Credit: Wikimedia Commons) With the announcement today of an Earth-sized planet orbiting in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, Earthlings' attention is focused once again on our nearest stellar ...