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

The detection of a large interstellar objects in 2017 named 'Oumuamua was a remarkable discovery. Figuring out where the ...

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

The Alpha Centauri star system is approaching the sun. Two researchers have determined how many objects from there have ...

Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

It would then take them just 20 years to travel to the Alpha Centauri star system four light years away, but they would have extremely little time to explore the system –. It is not possible for ...

More than 1 million "interstellar objects" the size of the Statue of Liberty could be drifting unseen in the outer solar ...

However, there is a more technologically advanced version that several groups think might offer us the best shot at getting to Alpha Centauri—light sailing. Instead of relying on light from the ...

But Alpha Centauri is about 4.3 light-years, or 25 trillion miles, from Earth. It would take a spacecraft over 25,000 years—more than 300 lifetimes of an astronomer—to reach it. When ...

Alpha Centauri is also moving towards us, and in some 28,000 years from now, it'll reach its closest point at a distance of a little over three light years away, raising the odds of an ...