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 ...

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

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 ...

A new study led by Western astrophysicists Cole Gregg and Paul Wiegert recommends Alpha Centauri—the next closest solar system to ours—is a great place to start, highlighting how and why it's ...

At about 6 light years away, Barnard's star is the nearest single star - one not orbiting with other stars - to our solar system. Only the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system, about 4 light ...

A diagram showing the structure of the solar system and its shell of icy bodies | Credit: NASA The duo conducted a simulation of the solar system and Alpha Centauri that lasted for over 100 ...

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.