A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

The detection of a large interstellar objects in 2017 named 'Oumuamua was a remarkable discovery. Figuring out where the ...

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

The Alpha Centauri star system is approaching the sun. Two researchers have determined how many objects from there have ...

New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri system, may already reside in the Oort Cloud, far from sight.

How many other objects from our stellar neighbors could be visiting our solar system? The Alpha Centauri (AC) star system is our nearest stellar neighbor and consists of three stars: Alpha ...

An astronomer suggests an idea to piggyback on the ambitious Breakthrough Starshot project that aims to send nano spacecraft to Alpha Centauri at a major fraction of the speed of light.

According to the study, which was published in Science Advances, a planet now known as Proxima Centauri c may also be hanging out around the star. Even more exciting, scientists think that the ...

It would then take them just 20 years to travel to the Alpha Centauri star system four light years away, but they would have extremely little time to explore the system –. It is not possible for ...

Meanwhile, in Ukraine, Alpha Centauri, a Ukrainian non-profit educational project, said on X that a mysterious white flash ...

Though it appears as a single bright speck in the sky, Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system, with several suspected exoplanets, including a super-Earth called Proxima Centauri b ...