Within a few dozen light years of the Sun, the sky is crowded with stars that could, in principle, host living worlds. I want ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Globe and Mail journalist Mark Medley’s book delves into stories of seemingly impossible goals from around the world ...

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The night sky has always been a source of wonder and speculation. The quest to understand the cosmos continues to inspire from ancient civilizations to modern astronomers. Recently, scientists have ...

Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes, born in 1861, discovered Proxima Centauri in 1912, initially suspecting it as a third member of the Alpha Centauri system. At the time of this hypothesis, Alpha Centauri A ...

This artist’s concept shows what a gas giant orbiting Alpha Centauri A could look like. Observations of the triple star system Alpha Centauri using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope indicate the ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC). In a thrilling development, astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence for a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A ...

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 ...

NASA's very productive James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found compelling evidence for a new planet in the Alpha Centauri star system, our closest stellar neighbor. This potential gas giant, ...