We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks," asteroids from the triple star system Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri is the closest star ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Proxima Centauri, an active M dwarf star, exhibits intense flare activity in radio and millimeter wavelengths, as observed by ALMA. These flares, ranging from 10 ...

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

It’s twice as massive as the Sun. Alpha Centauri is a triple star system, the third brightest and closest star system to Earth at 4.37 light-years away. Arcturus, the fourth brightest star ...