We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks," asteroids from the triple star system Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri is the closest star ...

This platform would sit above the sun's surface, using a combination of ... is possible to push a scientifically useful probe to Alpha Centauri within a human lifetime with minimal advances ...

Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

Interstellar materials have been identified in our Solar System, but their origin remains a mystery. A recent study suggests that the Alpha Centauri system, our stellar neighbor, could be their source ...

A new collaboration between Brown University and TU Delft has brought us closer to interstellar travel using light-powered ...

An international team of researchers from Brown University (USA) and Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) has made a ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star, one of our closest stellar neighbours.

Each of the planets, labeled b, c, d, and e, has a mass between 20% and 30% of Earth's, making them among the smallest yet ...

Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us. The planets newly discovered around Barnard’s Star are much too faint to be seen directly, so how were they found? The ...

Only the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system ... But its four planets are orbiting so close that its heat has created surface temperatures that would seem to preclude life, much like the ...