Alpha Centauri, one of the two "Pointer Stars" that help stargazers find the Southern Cross in the Southern Hemisphere, may have a planet in orbit around it. If it does, the Webb Telescope will find ...

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Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun, is probably shedding comets and asteroids into our solar system — and even producing a few meteors in our sky. Located just 4.3 light-years from ...

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A chip-sized structure made of silicon nanopillars floated off a surface inside a Cornell University lab, pushed upward by ...

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how much could already be here. Reading time 2 minutes Our nearest stellar ...

With the Webb Space Telescope on the brink of releasing its first full-color images and data, Jet Propulsion Laboratory astronomer Charles Beichman and his team are about to take a chance on a ...

Interstellar asteroids visiting our solar system from parts unknown used to be the stuff of science fiction. But today, we know of at least two such bodies Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov respectively ...

The appearance of the interstellar objects (ISOs) 'Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come from? Unfortunately, they ...