Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth, is moving toward us at 79,000 kilometers per hour (49,709 mph). It won’t reach its nearest point for another 27,700 years, but some of its ...

This number should also increase tenfold over the next 28,000 years as Alpha Centauri gets closer and closer to us. Further research is now needed to understand the exchange of matter in our galaxy.

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 ...

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 ...

This model simulates interstellar activity in Alpha Centauri, a three-star system, using the physical laws of our solar system. If the estimates are correct, about one million interstellar objects ...

Over 10 lakh interstellar objects the size of the Statue of Liberty are drifting unseen in the fringes of our solar system, a new yet-to-be peer-reviewed study has stated. Though unlikely to come ...

Nichol said this was partly driven by the discovery of new planets such as one identified this week in the Alpha Centauri star system, the closest yet outside our solar system.