Our stellar next-door neighbors, Alpha Centauri A (left) and B, shine brightly in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Currently the premier organization dedicated to searching for advanced life in ...

So what exactly is Alpha Centauri, and how far away is it? Alpha Centauri is a system of three stars and the planets that revolve around them.

Stephen Hawking, Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg helm the board for a new initiative, Breakthrough Starshot, whose technology could be used to someday reach Earth's neighboring star Alpha Centauri ...

The “Breakthrough Starshot” space mission to Alpha Centauri inpsired us to revisit the imagined trips to the star system in books, comics, TV, movies and video games.

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Yuri Milner is spending $100 million on a probe that could travel to Alpha Centauri within a generation—and he's recruited Mark Zuckerberg and Stephen Hawking to help. In an interview with The ...

Beyond Earth and Alpha Centauri have different names, but still share a lot in common. Three of Alpha Centauri’s developers talk about how these games compare.

Scientists René Heller and John Armstrong contend that there might be a planet even more suitable for life than Earth 4.3 light years away orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B.

To celebrate the discovery of Alpha Centauri Bb (as this hot little planet is called), we present to you a list of fictional planets that science fiction had discovered in Alpha Centauri long ago.