Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and how it got here. A new study led by Western astrophysicists Cole Gregg and ...

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

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. Alpha Centauri is the closest star ...

Explore Earth and its relationships with a plethora of planets, stars and galaxies in its cosmic family, Laniakea, the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

Illustration shows four small rocky planets detected in orbit around Barnard's Star, the nearest single star system to our solar system ...

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 ...