As of 2025, astronomers have identified at least 14 stars within 10 light-years of the Sun. After the Alpha Centauri system, ...

Our space-exploration ambitions have boldly taken humans to the moon, rovers to Mars and spacecraft to the outer reaches of ...

The detection of a large interstellar object in 2017 named 'Oumuamua was a landmark discovery. Figuring out where the wayward traveler came from, though, is another challenge entirely, especially ...

Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, is the brightest star in the sky. It’s twice as massive as the Sun. Canopus, the ...

A new collaboration between Brown University and TU Delft has brought us closer to interstellar travel using light-powered ...

(Web Desk) - Astronomers have discovered four rocky planets, all significantly smaller than Earth, orbiting Barnard’s Star — ...

Interstellar materials have been identified in our Solar System, but their origin remains a mystery. A recent study suggests that the Alpha Centauri system, our stellar neighbor, could be their source ...

Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth, is home to three stars, one of which is so tantalizingly similar to our sun that many experts speculate that its solar system might contain ...

Researchers estimate over a million interstellar objects from Alpha Centauri may already be lurking in the icy shell surrounding our solar system. Stars don’t hoard their material—Gregg and ...

Scientists have taken an exciting step toward sending tiny spacecraft to other stars. A team from Brown University in the U.S ...

Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar system after the Alpha Centauri system, NASA announced. Located only six ...

One promising way to pick up that kind of speed is a “lightsail” — a thin, reflective membrane that can be pushed by light ...