Alpha Centauri is the star system closest to our Solar System, and it is likely that particles from it could be making their way over to or already be in our stellar neighborhood. To know what to ...

Alpha Centauri asteroids may be scattered in the Oort Cloud Some interstellar rocks could travel into the inner solar system ...

How many other objects from our stellar neighbors could be visiting our solar system? The Alpha Centauri (AC) star system is our nearest stellar neighbor and consists of three stars: Alpha ...

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 ...

A new study led by Western astrophysicists Cole Gregg and Paul Wiegert recommends Alpha Centauri—the next closest solar system to ours—is a great place to start, highlighting how and why it's ...

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. The scientists behind the new ...

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.

The Alpha Centauri star system is approaching the sun. Two researchers have determined how many objects from there have already reached us and could reach us. At the edge of the solar system ...

In a case study published in the Planetary Science Journal and spotlighted by Universe Today, the researchers from The University of Western Ontario hypothesize a scenario in which our nearest stellar ...