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 moving ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

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 ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

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 ...

In 2016, researchers at Queen Mary discovered an exoplanet, Proxima b, orbiting our nearest star, Proxima Centauri ... (‘StarChips’), which would be able to travel to the Alpha Centauri system to seek ...

An curved arrow pointing right. When Proxima Centauri b was first discovered, many scientists had high hopes for it to inhabit living organisms. However, a new study published in The Astrophysical ...