The nearest single star to the Solar System has just ... The only stars closer to Earth are the Centauri trinary system. Barnard's star isn't just a lone star, like the Sun; it's a red dwarf ...

Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth, is home to three stars, one of which is so tantalizingly similar to our sun that many experts speculate that its solar system might contain ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Just six light-years from the solar system — in cosmic terms, our ...

With a visual magnitude of 0.0, it is one of the closest star systems to Earth and a prime candidate for scientific exploration. This star system is significant in the search for habitable exoplanets.

Launched in 2016 by the late Stephen Hawking and tech investor Yuri Milner, Breakthrough Starshot aims to send miniature probes to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth. The plan relies ...

The project hopes to propel roughly 1,000 tiny "StarChip" spacecraft toward Alpha Centauri, the second-closest star system to Earth, at 20% of light-speed (about 134 million mph). Each "chip ...

The planet, called Proxima b, orbits its parent star every 11 days and has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. This rocky world is a little more massive than the Earth, ...