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.

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 ...

New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri ...

Alpha Centauri is a mature star system, at 5 billion years old. This means that most of the material in this system’s protoplanetary disk has likely already dissipated, so it is not expected to ...

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

Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for a boost, just don't have the ability to scale to useful interstellar speeds ...

PhotoPhoto of the Sun in hydrogen-alpha light. The giant planet Jupiter ... Its distance is 1500 light years, meaning that the light we see from it left more than a thousand years before the ...

Alpha Centauri is also moving towards us, and in some 28,000 years from now, it'll reach its closest point at a distance of a little over three light years away, raising the odds of an ...

Proxima Centauri is the closest known star to Earth at a distance of around 4.25 light-years and is the only star in the system with a confirmed planet, known as Proxima Centauri b.