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

New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri ...

Its mass is estimated to be comparable to Earth’s — only about 30 percent higher — and it appears to orbit Proxima Centauri at roughly the right distance for liquid water to exist on its ...

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

In 2016, astronomers found a planet orbiting the nearest star to Earth in this system, called Proxima Centauri ... traces of three more exoplanets in orbit around the same star.

Alpha Centauri A and B orbit each other at a distance like the Sun and Uranus, while Proxima Centauri is very much on the ...

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

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 ...

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

Scientists work to define a “habitable zone,” which means that if it’s too close to a star, the water heats and evaporates, and too far, it freezes. Also, the atmospheric conditions need to be just ...

Proxima Centauri. This video gives an overview of the solar system, describing the collection of objects that orbit around the sun, our star. As well as naming the planets and their relative order ...

Stellar neighbors Alpha Centauri is made up of three stars: Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, which are both sun-like stars that orbit one another in a binary system, and Proxima Centauri ...