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 universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception!" ...

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

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 ...

Diminutive Barnard's Star is closer in size to Jupiter than to the Sun. Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri ...

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

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?

Only the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system, about 4 light-years away, are closer. A light-year is the distance light ...