A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

Unveiling the Cosmic Highway: Alpha Centauri’s Particles Making Their Way to Our Solar System The concept of a “cosmic highway” is not new, but this study marks a significant step 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 ...

We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks," asteroids from the ...

Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our own and has it's own earth-sized planet, Proxima Centauri b. The planet was ...

Using ALMA, astronomers discovered that Proxima Centauri produces frequent, high-energy millimeter-wavelength flares that ...

Researchers estimate over a million interstellar objects from Alpha Centauri may already be lurking in the icy shell surrounding our solar system. Stars don’t hoard their material—Gregg and ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Proxima Centauri, an active M dwarf star, exhibits intense flare activity in radio and millimeter wavelengths, as observed by ALMA. These flares, ranging from 10 ...

For the closest star, Proxima Centauri, we could detect life on an Earth-like world with only 10 hours of observation. For a Neptune-sized world, the ELT could capture planetary spectra in about ...