Chunks of Alpha Centauri—Our Closest Stellar Neighbor—Might Have Already Reached Us
A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...
PBS7y
Decoding Cosmic Spectra
one of which is so tantalizingly similar to our sun that many experts speculate that its solar system might contain habitable planets. But Alpha Centauri is about 4.3 light-years, or 25 trillion ...
Interstellar visitors: Material from Alpha Centauri may already be here
Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...
BGR1mon
Scientists discovered a new ‘super-Earth,’ and want to know if it could sustain life
Scientists studying data from the Alpha Centauri star system on ... to this new planet (called Proxima c) anytime soon, thanks to the fact that the orbital pattern around its star means the ...