Unveiling the Cosmic Highway: Alpha Centauri’s Particles Making Their Way to Our Solar System The concept of a “ cosmic highway ” is not new, but this study marks a significant step in ...

Alpha Centauri is also moving towards us, and in some 28,000 years from now, it'll reach its closest point at a distance of a little over three light years away, raising the odds of an ...

Alpha Centauri pelts the solar system like a wet dog Wiegert and his colleague, University of Western Ontario Ph.D. student Cole Gregg, were inspired to conduct a study of these alien invaders by ...

If Alpha Centauri has an Oort cloud of distant comets as the sun does, about a million of these objects larger than a football field are now in our solar system, astronomers Cole Gregg and Paul ...

If Alpha Centauri were to lose as much material as is assumed for our solar system, then around one million larger objects would have to have reached the Oort Cloud at the edge of the solar system ...

Spacecraft flying by the Alpha Centauri star system could see whether the planet circling Proxima Centauri has signs of extraterrestrial life. (Image credit: Courtesy of Space Initiatives Inc.) ...

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, with more ...

Alpha Centauri is about 4.4 light-years (roughly 25 trillion miles, or 40 trillion kilometers) from Earth and is home to three separate stars.