Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and how it got here. A new study led by Western astrophysicists Cole Gregg and ...

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.

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks," asteroids from the triple star system Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri is the closest star ...

Alpha Centauri is inching closer, sending space debris toward our solar system. Could it be a source of interstellar meteors—or even signs of alien life?

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

Though it appears as a single bright speck in the sky, Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system, with several suspected exoplanets, including a super-Earth called Proxima Centauri b ...

From the iconic 'Pillars of Creation' to the vivid colours of the Lagoon Nebula, check out these 7 astonishing photos of ...