A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers have unveiled the existence of a “cosmic highway”—a pathway of interstellar ...

Only the three-star Alpha Centauri star system, which is 4.1 light-years distant, is closer. In 2016, astronomers found a planet orbiting ... equivalent to the moon’s diameter across the sky ...

And tantalizingly, what they found suggests that our solar ... as a single bright speck in the sky, Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system, with several suspected exoplanets, including ...

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

"Interstellar material has been discovered ... "Here we present Alpha Centauri as a case study of the delivery of interstellar material to our solar system." AC likely hosts planets and is moving ...

Alpha Centauri, may be sending a steady stream of "interstellar material" our way. And tantalizingly, what they found suggests that our solar system may already be flooded with visitors from the star ...