Alpha Centauri, the closest stellar system to our own, has long intrigued astronomers and stargazers. Located just 4.37 light-years away, Alpha Centauri is a binary star system made up of two main ...

Today we'll be looking at the ONLY realistic ways to get to Alpha Centauri. By our current technological capabilities, a spaceship accelerated to 80km/s would have to travel for roughly 18000 years to ...

one of the three stars in orbit around each other in the Alpha Centauri System. Of the over 1000 extrasolar planets that have been discovered, this one especially grabs and stirs the imagination.

That’s all well and good, but that means that to communicate quantumly with Alpha Centauri—the nearest star to our own—we’d need a diffraction-limited telescope with a diameter of roughly ...

In 2019, Dr. Bendek joined NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where he developed the calibration system for the Roman Space Telescope ... enabling the observation of binary systems such as Alpha ...

IMAP will map the heliosphere — the solar wind-driven bubble that shields our solar system from cosmic radiation. It is to orbit near Lagrange... NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed a close ...

At a distance of 1.8 parsecs(1), it is the closest single star to the Sun; only the three stars in the alpha Centauri system are closer. Barnard's star is also among the least magnetically active red ...

While Earth would be incinerated, Europa’s subsurface oceans might temporarily support microbial life, offering a final refuge in the solar system and expanding the search for biosigna ...