Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun, is probably shedding comets and asteroids into our solar system — and even producing a few meteors in our sky. Located just 4.3 light-years from ...

Alpha Centauri is the star system closest to our Solar System, and it is likely that particles from it could be making their way over to or already be in our stellar neighborhood. To know what to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lasers could be used to propel tiny spacecraft toward Alpha Centauri, scientists suggest. | Credit: Artist's impression by Michel ...

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Humans are looking to colonize the rest of the universe in Netflix's reimagining of the 1960s sci-fi TV show "Lost in Space." Of course, it doesn't go very well — hence the name of the show. When ...

Alpha Centauri, one of the two "Pointer Stars" that help stargazers find the Southern Cross in the Southern Hemisphere, may have a planet in orbit around it. If it does, the Webb Telescope will find ...

Interstellar asteroids visiting our solar system from parts unknown used to be the stuff of science fiction. But today, we know of at least two such bodies Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov respectively ...

On Tuesday, Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking and a panel of theoretical physicists announced Breakthrough Starshot: an initiative to send nanocrafts to Alpha Centauri in the continued search for signs of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. This isn't the first time the idea of visiting Alpha Centauri at that ...

Alpha Centauri is our closest stellar neighbor, a binary star system located just 4.376 light-years away. Despite its proximity, repeated astronomical surveys have failed to find hard evidence of ...