"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!" ...

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 ...

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

But Hubble observations of the orbit of the outermost ... including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception," said ...

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. The scientists behind the new ...

Hubble detected the black hole by observing the motion of stars near the cluster's centre, which suggested a massive, unseen object was pulling on them. The stars' motions revealed a consistent ...

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system ... is dwarf planet Pluto. The Hubble finding is crucial support ...