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This artist’s concept shows what a gas giant orbiting Alpha Centauri A could look like. Observations of the triple star system Alpha Centauri using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope indicate the ...

Interstellar asteroids visiting our solar system from parts unknown used to be the stuff of science fiction. But today, we know of at least two such bodies Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov respectively ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks ...

The detection of a large interstellar object in 2017 named ‘Oumuamua was a landmark discovery. Figuring out where the wayward traveler came from, though, is another challenge entirely, especially ...

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers have unveiled the existence of a “cosmic highway”—a pathway of interstellar material from the Alpha Centauri system that may already be linking our solar ...

Alpha Centauri is our closest stellar neighbor, a binary star system located just 4.376 light-years away. Despite its proximity, repeated astronomical surveys have failed to find hard evidence of ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A rocky planet similar to Earth may be orbiting one of our nearest stellar neighbors and could be detected using existing techniques, according to a new study led by astronomers at the ...

Reaching far away star systems has long been a human dream. There is theory that a ship longer than a city could take people ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has given us this stunning view of the bright Alpha Centauri A (on the left) and Alpha Centauri B (on the right), shining like huge cosmic headlamps in the dark.