Geschichtenerzählen und Astrophysik - das sind seine beiden großen Leidenschaften: Harald Lesch ist Professor für theoretische Astrophysik an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und ...

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 ...

Alpha Centauri is a star system with components 4.2 to 4.4 light-years from Earth and comprises three stars. It is the closest star system to the solar system, and one of its stars is the nearest star ...

Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple system closest to our own sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest Sun-like star to Earth. Located just 4 light-years away, this possible ...

Geschichtenerzählen und Astrophysik - das sind seine beiden großen Leidenschaften: Harald Lesch ist Professor für theoretische Astrophysik an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und ...

Die Illustration zeigt den Exoplaneten Proxima d im Orbit um den Roten Zwerg Proxima Centauri. Dieser ist Teil des Dreifachsternsystems Alpha Centauri. Zwischen beiden sind als helle Lichtpunkte auch ...

Project Blue contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Alpha Centauri is having a moment: Our mysterious neighboring star system has been seeing a surge of scientific ...

Finding a habitable planet in the nearest star system is an ongoing quest. But the overall habitability of the Alpha Centauri system based on its three stars, just over 4 light-years away, could be ...

(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 ...