C. A. Giuppone, A. C. M. Correia(Submitted on 10 Jul 2017) The stability of planets in the alpha-Centauri AB stellar system has been studied extensively. However, most studies either focus […] ...

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 ...

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For the USS Enterprise, that means a warp engine, but scientists back on 21 st century Earth are working out ways to travel to the nearest star system—Alpha Centauri—with technology that’s a ...