Internet Billionaire Yuri Milner on Tuesday announced plans to travel to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri ... made his fortune investing in high-tech innovators like Facebook and Twitter.

If you’ve played 1999’s best 4X strategy game, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri ... is the switch from the traditional, linear tech tree that drives other Civilization games forward through ...

It wasn't just the factions that gave Alpha Centauri its sense of life. The Planet itself was a character. As players progressed down a complex tree of realistically speculative future tech ...

Technology in development could capture images from an Earth-size planet in the nearby Alpha ... Centauri b. Astronomers want direct images of exoplanets. They may need 'quantum-level' tech ...

How many other objects from our stellar neighbors could be visiting our solar system? The Alpha Centauri (AC) star system is our nearest stellar neighbor and consists of three stars: Alpha ...

We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks," asteroids from the ...

A new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal has figured out what a habitable planet may look like in the Alpha Centauri star system, the closest start system to us at just 4.4 light-years.

One hundred years after man set foot on the moon, NASA hopes to launch an exploratory probe to investigate the system of our nearest neighbor, the star system Alpha Centauri. There’s only one ...

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 ...

Lasers could be used to propel tiny spacecraft toward Alpha Centauri, scientists suggest. | Credit: Artist's impression by Michel Lamontagne, courtesy of Space Initiatives Inc. Our space ...

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But could humans or spacecraft ever reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our planet? Alpha Centauri is about 4.4 light-years (roughly 25 trillion miles, or 40 trillion kilometers ...