The search for interstellar visitors has taken an unexpected turn. While previous discoveries like ‘Oumuamua and Comet ...
Sure, they’re particles and rocks, but they’re still a fascinatingly long way from home. Alpha Centauri is the star system ...
A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...
Over a million interstellar objects larger than 100 meters could be in the outer solar system, originating from Alpha ...
New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri ...
Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...
Some are as big as the Statue of Liberty. But these aren’t asteroids from our own solar system– they may have come from an ...
New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.
Simulations showed that over 10 lakh macroscopic objects, each wider than 100 metres were moving surreptitiously outside our ...
Alpha Centauri and our Sun may be exchanging space rocks, with interstellar objects hiding in the Oort Cloud or burning up in ...
"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha ...
The Alpha Centauri star system is approaching the sun. Two researchers have determined how many objects from there have ...