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4 Small Planets Found Around One of Closest Stars To Earth: What We Know
Diminutive Barnards Star is closer in size to Jupiter than to the Sun. Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us.
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Alpha Centauri May Have Sent Millions of Asteroids into the Solar System
A study proposes that Alpha Centauri could be contributing a significant number of asteroids to the solar system. Simulations indicate that around 50 objects from the neighboring star system may enter the Oort Cloud annually. While most pass through due to their high velocity, a few could travel inward. The frequency of such occurrences is expected...
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Over 1 Million Interstellar Objects Could Be Hidden in Our Solar System
A new study reveals that more than 1 million interstellar objects, each larger than the Statue of Liberty, may be residing in the Oort Cloud. These objects, believed to have originated from the Alpha Centauri system, were captured by the Sun’s gravity and are now part of our solar system. Unlike fast-moving interstellar visitors, these objects re...
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NASA Launches First of Three Rockets to Investigate Alpha Centauri, Study Habitable Star Conditions
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has successfully launched the first of three rockets that will be heading to the stars Alpha Centauri A and B. The X-ray Quantum Calorimeter (XQC) mission was launched on June 26 from Australia. It is the first NASA mission launched from a commercial facility outside the US. With two more lau...
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NASA Could Send Probe To Nearby Exoplanet By 2069
To look for signs of life beyond our solar system, the US space agency could send a spacecraft to the nearby Alpha Centauri system by 2069, according to a mission concept presented by a NASA scientist.
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Giant Telescope in Chile to Seek Habitable Planets in Alpha Centauri
Interest in exploring Alpha Centauri has increased since scientists announced last year that they had discovered evidence of an Earth-sized planet circling Proxima Centauri.
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Scientists Say They've Found A Planet Orbiting Proxima Centauri, Our Closest Neighbor
Scientists have discovered what they believe to be a new planet, the closest one ever detected outside our solar system. It is a small, rocky planet not unlike our own, orbiting the sun's closest stellar neighbor.
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Hawking, Milner, and Zuckerberg Invest in Interstellar Spaceships
Breakthrough Starshot is a research and engineering programme aimed to build "nanocrafts" that can travel at 20 percent of lightspeed.
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Stephen Hawking, Russian Billionaire Unveil Plan To Reach Alpha Centauri
Billionaire Russian investor Yuri Milner and British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Tuesday announced an ambitious new space initiative for a mission to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth.
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Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope Reveals Millions of Stars at Galactic Core
At the very hub of our galaxy, this star cluster surrounds the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole which is about four million times the mass of our sun.
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4 Small Planets Found Around One of Closest Stars To Earth: What We Know
Diminutive Barnards Star is closer in size to Jupiter than to the Sun. Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us.
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Alpha Centauri May Have Sent Millions of Asteroids into the Solar System
A study proposes that Alpha Centauri could be contributing a significant number of asteroids to the solar system. Simulations indicate that around 50 objects from the neighboring star system may enter the Oort Cloud annually. While most pass through due to their high velocity, a few could travel inward. The frequency of such occurrences is expected...
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Over 1 Million Interstellar Objects Could Be Hidden in Our Solar System
A new study reveals that more than 1 million interstellar objects, each larger than the Statue of Liberty, may be residing in the Oort Cloud. These objects, believed to have originated from the Alpha Centauri system, were captured by the Sun’s gravity and are now part of our solar system. Unlike fast-moving interstellar visitors, these objects re...
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NASA Launches First of Three Rockets to Investigate Alpha Centauri, Study Habitable Star Conditions
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has successfully launched the first of three rockets that will be heading to the stars Alpha Centauri A and B. The X-ray Quantum Calorimeter (XQC) mission was launched on June 26 from Australia. It is the first NASA mission launched from a commercial facility outside the US. With two more lau...
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NASA Could Send Probe To Nearby Exoplanet By 2069
To look for signs of life beyond our solar system, the US space agency could send a spacecraft to the nearby Alpha Centauri system by 2069, according to a mission concept presented by a NASA scientist.
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Giant Telescope in Chile to Seek Habitable Planets in Alpha Centauri
Interest in exploring Alpha Centauri has increased since scientists announced last year that they had discovered evidence of an Earth-sized planet circling Proxima Centauri.
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Scientists Say They've Found A Planet Orbiting Proxima Centauri, Our Closest Neighbor
Scientists have discovered what they believe to be a new planet, the closest one ever detected outside our solar system. It is a small, rocky planet not unlike our own, orbiting the sun's closest stellar neighbor.
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Hawking, Milner, and Zuckerberg Invest in Interstellar Spaceships
Breakthrough Starshot is a research and engineering programme aimed to build "nanocrafts" that can travel at 20 percent of lightspeed.
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Stephen Hawking, Russian Billionaire Unveil Plan To Reach Alpha Centauri
Billionaire Russian investor Yuri Milner and British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Tuesday announced an ambitious new space initiative for a mission to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth.
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Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope Reveals Millions of Stars at Galactic Core
At the very hub of our galaxy, this star cluster surrounds the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole which is about four million times the mass of our sun.
