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.

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

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 ...

Alpha Centauri. The huge structure was created from one or more giant eruptions about 10,000 years ago, when our human ancestors were just beginning to farm. This Hubble image reveals the true ...

The Hubble Telescope has facilitated the precise ... To put it into perspective, the Alpha Centauri system, which is our closest neighbor, is just over four light-years away.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Hubble ... Centauri are an indication of the possible presence of an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH). You can enjoy the view of ...

Hubble detected the black hole by observing the motion of stars near the cluster's centre, which suggested a massive, unseen object was pulling on them. The stars' motions revealed a consistent ...

The inner bodies are too close together to be resolved by the Hubble Space Telescope ... including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper ...