A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own, has always intrigued astronomers. Consisting of three stars— Alpha Centauri A , Alpha Centauri B , and Proxima Centauri —this system is ...

Though it appears as a single bright speck in the sky, Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system, with several suspected exoplanets, including a super-Earth called Proxima Centauri b ...

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 ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...