One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A rocky planet similar to Earth may be orbiting one of our nearest stellar neighbors and could be detected using existing techniques, according to a new study led by astronomers at the ...

Our nearest neighbor, Alpha Centauri, is 4.37 light-years from Earth, which is super close from a cosmological perspective but achingly far from a human point of view. A new telescope promises to ...

Astronomers at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, led by Kevin Wagner, have identified evidence for a potential ...

Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has wondered whether we are alone in the universe. Some people—myself ...

Scientists are starting to look for life in our galactic backyard. Alpha Centauri, two stars that at just over four light-years (about 25 trillion miles) away are the closest sunlike stars to our ...

Humans are looking to colonize the rest of the universe in Netflix’s reimagining of the 1960s sci-fi TV show “Lost in Space.” Of course, it doesn’t go very well — hence the name of the show. When ...

The search for interstellar visitors has taken an unexpected turn. While previous discoveries like ‘Oumuamua and Comet ...

Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun, is probably shedding comets and asteroids into our solar system — and even producing a few meteors in our sky. Located just 4.3 light-years from ...

Scientists may have found the first planet ever detected around our closest “solar twin,” a star called Alpha Centauri A, the same real-life star that was home to the fictional moon Pandora in James ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Pretty soon we may know of a few distant alien rocky planets ...