Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...

Can we really reach another solar system? This video explores how humanity might colonize Proxima Centauri B, our closest potentially habitable exoplanet, located in the Alpha Centauri system. We ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

To reach Earth’s closest star system, Alpha Centauri, scientists are building a laser-powered spacecraft. To pull off ...

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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 ...

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha Centauri, new research has revealed.

Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to our own, lying around 4.3 light-years away. New research has indicated that, if Alpha Centauri ejects as much material as the solar system, then as ...

Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun, is probably shedding comets and asteroids into our solar system — and even producing a few meteors in our sky. Located just 4.3 light-years ...

The closest stellar system to us is the triple system Alpha Centauri. It’s currently creeping closer to our Solar System at 79,000 km per hour (about 49,709 mph), and should be at its closest ...

If Alpha Centauri were to lose as much material as is assumed for our solar system, then around one million larger objects would have to have reached the Oort Cloud at the edge of the solar system.