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 ...

A new space telescope will search for habitable worlds orbiting stars in the Alpha Centauri system, a cluster of three stars comprising the sun's closest stellar neighbors. The mission named TOLIMAN ...

European astronomers working from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile have discovered a planet slightly more massive than Earth, orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri triple star system – ...

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 ...

image: The closest star system to the Earth is the famous Alpha Centauri group. Located in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur), at a distance of 4.3 light-years, this system is made up of the ...

Mankind hasn't yet explored some of the most interesting objects in our own solar system — heck, we still don't even know all that much about Earth itself — but that isn't stopping NASA from setting ...

Looking back from a distance, whether that be time or physical separation, can provide us with a fresh perspective on who we are and how far we've come. In our daily lives, Earth appears flat and ...

The Centauri system: Alpha Centauri A is the bright star to the left, Alpha Centauri B is the bright star to the right, and Proxima Centauri is circled in red. A team led by Kevin Wagner from the ...

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 ...

(Note: This post was originally published on April 17, 2018, and contains light spoilers for Netflix’s “Lost in Space,” whose third and final season debuted Wednesday.) Humans are looking to colonize ...