The closest exoplanets to the Solar System are around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. This little star is orbiting two bigger ...

There, over a thousand passengers who have been living in the airborne habitat (the descendants of a crew that launched from ...

Proxima b will be a prime target for the hunt for evidence of life elsewhere in the universe. Indeed, the Alpha Centauri system is also the target of humankind’s first attempt to travel to ...

The duo conducted a simulation of the solar system and Alpha Centauri that lasted for over 100 million years. It showed that a significant number of objects can reach the solar system from Alpha ...

The closest star, Proxima Centauri, also hosts an exoplanet that scientists believe could have the conditions necessary for life. But reaching this star system would be no small feat.

According to the researchers, there's about a 0.5% chance that one of these wayward planets might have formed in our own system and ended up in the Oort cloud as it drifted away from the sun.