This animation brings some of the research results to life. "Alpha Centauri's orbit about the galactic center viewed on the xy and yz planes (top row), ...

Above: An animation showing the “photogravitational assist” at Alpha Centauri A. For this plan to work, the probe would redeploy its sail on arrival, leveraging the incoming radiation from the ...

This schematic animation shows how a giant, low-density light sail traveling at nearly 5 percent the speed of light could decelerate and enter orbit in the Alpha Centauri star system.

Alpha Centauri is made of three stars, which means there will be plenty to look at. Of the three, a small, dim, reddish star called Proxima Centauri is the closest to Earth, at 4.24 light-years away.

Alpha Centauri Bb sits just 3.6 million miles (6 million km) from its sunlike star, completing one orbit every 3.2 days. As a result, the planet's surface is far too hot to support life as we know ...

If thenearest star system, Alpha Centauri, ... Titan A.E. came out 25 years ago, and history has been kind to the infamous flop that killed Fox Animation Studios.

There’s Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, two stars that form a binary star system, and a smaller red dwarf star known as Proxima Centauri. The first star is brighter and a little larger ...

Alpha Centauri has long fascinated astronomers as the closest star system to our own. Located just 4.37 light-years away, this stellar trio offers a prime target for hunting exoplanets. Recent ...

Alpha Centauri is racing toward us at 0.007 light-years per century (80,000 kilometers per hour) and will be closest 28,000 years from now, when it will be 3.2 light-years from Earth.

Alpha Centauri is a mature star system, at 5 billion years old. This means that most of the material in this system’s protoplanetary disk has likely already dissipated, ...

If the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, does harbor rocky planets similar to Earth as new findings suggest, there exist a host of ways to get us there — in theory. But sending a person to ...