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 ...

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As Alpha Centauri moves away from its companion star, astronomers are training new instruments on the system -- hoping to catch sight of an elusive "superhabitable" planet. Share on Facebook (opens in ...

Researchers may have discovered a gas giant orbiting the star Alpha Centauri A, and it appears to be in the star's habitable zone. Reading time 3 minutes Exoplanet hunters have had an eye on Alpha ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet that could be in the habitable zone of its star. Therefore, it has garnered a lot of attention, including several missions designed to visit it and ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. This artist's impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that ...

Astronomers have found nearly 6,000 exoplanets orbiting other stars. But for every confirmed detection, there are countless mere hints, inconclusive observations that could just as well be blips of ...