New research suggests that our Solar System may already be swimming in interstellar objects that originate from the Alpha ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri system, may already reside in the Oort Cloud, far from sight.

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

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 ...