Hatzes said the similarities of the Epsilon Eridani system to our solar system mean it could harbor a terrestrial planet like Earth that could sustain life. Marcy said a ring of dust surrounds ...

A comparative infant, any planets around Epsilon Eridani wouldn’t have had time to evolve complex and advanced life forms. We get it, you nerd. What about the actual science?

Astronomers have discovered that the nearby star Epsilon Eridani has two rocky asteroid belts and an outer icy ring, making it a triple-ring system. The inner asteroid belt is a virtual twin of ...

This is an artist's illustration of the epsilon Eridani system showing Epsilon Eridani b, right foreground, a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting its parent star at the outside edge of an asteroid belt. In ...

Astronomers have discovered that the nearby star Epsilon Eridani has two rocky asteroid belts and an outer icy ring, making it a triple-ring system. The inner asteroid belt is a virtual twin of the… ...

SPOCK’S home world. That would be somewhere orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, just a hop, skip and parsec from Earth, or 10.5 light-years to be exact.

Epsilon Eridani, however, could harbor a retinue of planets. Two years ago, Jane Greaves of the Joint Astronomy Center in Hilo, Hawaii, and her colleagues imaged a dusty disk around the star.

In Project Ozma, Green Bank’s 85-ft. radio telescope is turned toward Epsilon Eridani and another star, Tau Ceti, both of them about eleven light years (66 trillion miles) away.

It's been a busy time in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, an endeavor nicknamed SETI that began 50 years ago with a scan for alien radio waves from Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani. NASA ...

The Debris Disk Around epsilon EridaniThe debris disk closest to Earth is the one around the star epsilon Eridani at a distance of 3.2 pc. It is the prime target for detailed studies of a belt of ...