A new study led by Western astrophysicists Cole Gregg and Paul Wiegert recommends Alpha Centauri—the next closest solar system to ours—is a great place to start, highlighting how and why it's ...

Only the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system, about 4 light-years away ... Barnard’s star, located in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus, is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular ...

The Dog star is a part of the Canis Majoris, or "Big Dog" constellation ... The closest star is part of the Alpha Centauri system, NASA says. It contains three stars, and Proxima Centauri is ...

a compact group (it happens to be the smallest of the 88 currently recognized constellations). Just to the left of it will be Alpha Centauri (Rigil Kentaurus), the brightest star in Centaurus the ...

We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks," asteroids from the triple star system Alpha Centauri. The scientists behind the new ...

Only the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system ... Barnard's star, located in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus, is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star.

Only the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system ... Barnard’s star, located in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus, is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star.