The search for interstellar visitors has taken an unexpected turn. While previous discoveries like ‘Oumuamua and Comet ...

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

Alpha Centauri is the star system closest to our Solar System, and it is likely that particles from it could be making their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Sometimes metres and kilometres are used to measure objects and distances in space, especially if they are small or within our solar system ... our next nearest star, is approximately 4.25 ...