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

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha Centauri, new research has revealed.

Diminutive Barnards Star is closer in size to Jupiter than to the Sun. Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

“If a planet orbits too close to its star ... Two exoplanets have been detected in the Alpha Centauri system, both orbiting ...

Astronomers have long suspected that at least one exoplanet orbits Barnard's ... closest star to our solar system, following the three stars of the Alpha Centauri system. (Five potential planets ...

"If a planet orbits too close to its star ... Two exoplanets have been detected in the Alpha Centauri system, both orbiting the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. Various methods are used to detect ...

Interstellar materials have been identified in our Solar System, but their origin remains a mystery. A recent study suggests that the Alpha Centauri system, our stellar neighbor, could be their source ...

Instead, they argue they’ve traveled light-years, originating from Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth. Until now, though, astronomers have only confirmed two interstellar visitors.

They can perturb orbits and give a little bit of extra ... how many comets and asteroids might be leaving the Alpha Centauri system." If Gregg and Wiegert are correct and Alpha Centauri does ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be ... gravitational interactions perturb the orbits of other smaller objects in Alpha Centauri, ranging from asteroids and ...