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

How can lightsail technology advance to help humanity travel to other star systems? This is what a recent study published in ...

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.

Interstellar materials have been identified in our Solar System, but their origin remains a mystery. A recent study suggests ...

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 ...

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?

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...