Artist’s concept of a rocky planet similar to Earth in the Alpha Centauri double star system. Are there really any potentially habitable planets there? A new study shows what such a planet might look ...

The Fermi Explorer probe could launch toward Alpha Centauri in just three years. This famous star system sits roughly four ...

On a day when favorite-backers have struggled, Alpha Centauri ended the dry spell with a scintillating 4 1/2-length victory in the July 13 Tattersalls Falmouth Stakes (G1) for jockey Colm O'Donoghue ...

Alpha Centauri turned the Coronation Stakes (G1) into a procession at Royal Ascot June 22, with a spectacular performance that left her 11 rivals toiling in her wake. The race was billed as a clash of ...

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Born Nov. 10, 1861, in Scotland, Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes would reshape our understanding of our cosmic neighborhood when ...

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 ...

Our nearest neighbor, Alpha Centauri, is 4.37 light-years from Earth, which is super close from a cosmological perspective but achingly far from a human point of view. A new telescope promises to ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A new space telescope will search for habitable worlds orbiting stars ...