Consisting of three stars—Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri—this system is moving toward us at high speeds. According to recent research, material from Alpha Centauri is ...

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 ...

Researchers estimate over a million interstellar objects from Alpha Centauri may already be lurking in the icy shell surrounding our solar system. Stars don’t hoard their material—Gregg and ...