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.

"This system is one of the best that we know to actually probe some of the processes that happened in our Solar System," van 't Hoff said in a news release. HOPS-315 is much younger than the Sun ...

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“We’re seeing a system that looks like what our Solar System looked like when it was just beginning to form,” van ‘t Hoff added. The newborn planetary system described in the study is ...

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Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, speeding through our celestial neighborhood.

Previous research suggests that small rocky bodies called protoplanets formed throughout the solar system, but those found beyond the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter came together a bit ...

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