Though it appears as a single bright speck in the sky, Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system, with several suspected exoplanets, including a super-Earth called Proxima Centauri b ...

But the universe is more interconnected than we once thought. Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own, has always intrigued astronomers. Consisting of three stars—Alpha Centauri A ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

New research suggests that Alpha Centauri could host a Super Jupiter in a stable orbit. The research into it has been done by Tinglong Feng, an undergraduate at Xi’an Jiaotong University in China.

Researchers mapping a bubble of superheated gas that surrounds our solar system found a surprise, there is a tunnel that may ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

Researchers estimate over a million interstellar objects from Alpha Centauri may already be lurking in the icy shell surrounding our solar system. Stars don’t hoard their material—Gregg and ...

Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, is the brightest star in the sky. It’s twice as massive as the Sun. Canopus, the ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth, is home to three stars, one of which is so tantalizingly similar to our sun that many experts speculate that its solar system might contain ...

Researchers have found that the planet — called Proxima b — was likely bathed in radiation after its host star (comparable to our sun), Proxima Centauri, emitted a huge flare in March.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Proxima Centauri, an active M dwarf star, exhibits intense flare activity in radio and millimeter wavelengths, as observed by ALMA. These flares, ranging from 10 ...