A new interstellar object has been spotted careening into the solar system at an extremely unusual, hyperbolic trajectory. If ...

But researchers have just demonstrated that once you are far away from the planets of the Solar System, there might be a ...

Artist's impression of Planet Nine – a suspected “wide-orbit” planet – with the Sun in the distance; Neptune's orbit is shown ...

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 ...

Alpha Centauri May Have Sent Millions of Asteroids into the Solar System Friday March 7, 2025 Written by Gadgets 360 Staff ...

This image of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri AB also shows the much fainter red dwarf star, Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. This image was created from ...

Alpha Centauri pelts the solar system like a wet dog Wiegert and his colleague, University of Western Ontario Ph.D. student Cole Gregg, were inspired to conduct a study of these alien invaders by ...

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 ...

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.