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

New research suggests that our Solar System may already be swimming in interstellar objects that originate from the Alpha ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...