The search for interstellar visitors has taken an unexpected turn. While previous discoveries like ‘Oumuamua and Comet ...

Sure, they’re particles and rocks, but they’re still a fascinatingly long way from home. Alpha Centauri is the star system ...

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

Over a million interstellar objects larger than 100 meters could be in the outer solar system, originating from Alpha ...

Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

The detection of a large interstellar objects in 2017 named 'Oumuamua was a remarkable discovery. Figuring out where the ...

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

Simulations showed that over 10 lakh macroscopic objects, each wider than 100 metres were moving surreptitiously outside our ...

"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha ...

Alpha Centauri and our Sun may be exchanging space rocks, with interstellar objects hiding in the Oort Cloud or burning up in ...

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.

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 ...