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One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks ...

The search for interstellar visitors has taken an unexpected turn. While previous discoveries like ‘Oumuamua and Comet ...

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 ...

The detection of a large interstellar object in 2017 named ‘Oumuamua was a landmark discovery. Figuring out where the wayward traveler came from, though, is another challenge entirely, especially ...

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 ...

A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the astronomy world. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have detected ...

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 ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers detected a potential gas giant exoplanet, designated S1, orbiting Alpha Centauri A, a star in the closest stellar system to Earth. The ...

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