The planet appears to be orbiting Alpha Centauri A, which is a star a lot like our own Sun, though the conditions on the would-be planet are unknowable at this time. In the hunt for life outside ...

one of which is so tantalizingly similar to our sun that many experts speculate that its solar system might contain habitable planets. But Alpha Centauri is about 4.3 light-years, or 25 trillion ...

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 ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

But could humans or spacecraft ever reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our planet? Alpha Centauri is about 4.4 ...

and there may be planets orbiting its three stars (though, none have yet been confirmed). To find out if Alpha Centauri could be currently ejecting material, the researchers turned to existing ...

Though it appears as a single bright speck in the sky, Alpha Centauri is actually a triple ... likely eject less material than those in their planet-forming years, the presence of multiple stars ...

Interstellar materials have been identified in our Solar System, but their origin remains a mystery. A recent study suggests ...

With the new findings, astronomers now know that there are rocky planets orbiting in the Alpha Centauri and Barnard’s star systems, though none in the habitable zone. Two exoplanets have been ...

ST. PETERSBURG, September 24. /ITAR-TASS/. St. Petersburg astronomers have spotted one more planet circling a star in the Alpha Centauri system just 4.36 light-years away from the Solar System.

Kornmesser/European Southern Observatory Alpha Centauri is home to three stars, including the closest star to Earth other than the sun, Proxima Centauri, and an unknown number of planets.