A spacecraft named Chrysalis could one day carry 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own. This ...

The spacecraft would be 36 miles long and contain the necessities for this space travel, all of which would be supported by ...

There may be a habitable world at the Sun's closest solar twin. In the complex space inhabited by the Alpha Centauri triple ...

The sci-fi-like project won the top prize in the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a contest for designing hypothetical ...

Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting one of three stars in the stellar system ...

The candidate world believed to be orbiting Alpha Centauri A, also known as Rigil Kentaurus, is in its habitable zone. If ...

Proxima Centauri is located around 4.25 light-years away making it the nearest star to Earth beyond our sun. The star's planet, called Proxima b, is approximately the same mass as Earth and orbits ...

Breakthrough Watch: Alien-hunting effort takes telescopic aim at Proxima Centauri b by Alan Boyle on October 3, 2016 at 10:59 am Share 1 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

The Proxima Centauri system can be understood as a miniature version of our solar system. The red dwarf star is only about 1/7 the diameter of the sun, or about 1.5 times that of Jupiter.

Proxima Centauri itself is an interesting star that's very different from our own. It's extraordinarily small, dim, and faint by solar standards, possessing just: 15% of the Sun's radial size, ...

Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and a red dwarf star. A red dwarf is the smallest, coolest and most common kind of star in our region of the Milky Way galaxy.