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 ...

Last year, Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner hatched an ambitious plan to send a tiny probe to the Alpha Centauri star system. Travelling at 20 percent the speed of light, the ...