Interstellar visitors: Material from Alpha Centauri may already be here
Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...
ScienceAlert12 小时
Alpha Centauri Particles Already Lurk in Our Solar System, Study Suggests
"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...
BGR1 个月
Living near Proxima Centauri might be impossible
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The nearby star Proxima Centauri has long been considered a potential place to search ...
Queen Mary University of London3 年
Our nearest neighbours? The astonishing discovery of exoplanet Proxima b
In 2016, researchers at Queen Mary discovered an exoplanet, Proxima b, orbiting our nearest star, Proxima Centauri. An exoplanet is a planet outside our own solar system. This is the closest such ...
A High-Energy Proton Beam Could Finally Connect Us to Proxima Centauri
The closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri (PC), is still about 8000 times further away from us than Pluto. Propelling a ...
Live Science on MSN6 个月
Will we ever reach Alpha Centauri, our closest neighboring star system?
Our space-exploration ambitions have boldly taken humans to the moon, rovers to Mars and spacecraft to the outer reaches of ...