Caption This artist's impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that is the closest to Earth. Alpha Centauri B is the most brilliant object ...
one of which is so tantalizingly similar to our sun that many experts speculate that its solar system might contain habitable planets. But Alpha Centauri is about 4.3 light-years, or 25 trillion ...
Only the three-star Alpha Centauri star system, which is 4.1 light-years distant, is closer. In 2016, astronomers found a planet orbiting the nearest star to Earth in this system, called Proxima ...
Please enable JavaScript to read this content. This artist's impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that ...
will join the search for potentially habitable planets around the Alpha Centauri star system. The survey will… Read More GUADALAJARA, Mexico – A multimillion-dollar campaign to look for ...
In January 2017, Breakthrough Initiatives signed an agreement with the European Southern Observatory to collaborate on a multi-million-dollar astronomical programme, ‘Breakthrough Watch’, to hunt for ...