A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

Sure, they’re particles and rocks, but they’re still a fascinatingly long way from home. Alpha Centauri is the star system ...

New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri ...

The nearest single star to the Solar System has just ... The only stars closer to Earth are the Centauri trinary system. Barnard's star isn't just a lone star, like the Sun; it's a red dwarf ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Just six light-years from the solar system — in cosmic terms, our ...

Launched in 2016 by the late Stephen Hawking and tech investor Yuri Milner, Breakthrough Starshot aims to send miniature probes to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth. The plan relies ...

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the ... once every 58 Earth days — in some places, the ...

With a visual magnitude of 0.0, it is one of the closest star systems to Earth and a prime candidate for scientific exploration. This star system is significant in the search for habitable exoplanets.

In the new study, uploaded Feb. 5 to the pre-print server arXiv, researchers simulated how much interstellar material was ejected from Alpha Centauri — the closest star system to Earth — over ...