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 ...

The blockbuster film Avatar featured a planet imagined to be circling Alpha Centauri B, the star closest to our sun. Now astronomers have discovered there really might be a system of planets there.

If finding exoplanets around our nearest stellar neighbor were easy, astronomers would have mapped Alpha Centauri’s planetary system long ago. Instead, the search has required a blend of technical ...

A team of astronomers on Thursday provided the strongest evidence yet that a planet circles one of Alpha Centauri’s sunlike stars. The world is at the very edge of the region around the star where ...

The recent discovery of a potential gas giant circling the nearby star Alpha Centauri A has led to speculation that it may be orbited in turn by a habitable moon that could support life, just like in ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered strong evidence suggesting the presence of a potential new exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the closest sun-like ...

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