One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

Interstellar materials have been identified in our Solar System, but their origin remains a mystery. A recent study suggests ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star, of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

WASHINGTON >> Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star - one of our closest ...

Alpha Centauri asteroids may be scattered in the Oort Cloud Some interstellar rocks could travel into the inner solar system ...

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...

Alpha Centauri is inching closer, sending space debris toward our solar system. Could it be a source of interstellar ...

Basant's team, which also includes a researcher from Heidelberg University, found the exoplanets using the 8-meter Gemini ...

We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks," asteroids from the triple star system Alpha Centauri. The scientists behind the new ...

A new study led by Western astrophysicists Cole Gregg and Paul Wiegert recommends Alpha Centauri—the next closest solar system to ours—is a great place to start, highlighting how and why it's ...