Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting Alpha ...

A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the ...

Alpha Centauri planet candidate discovered by JWST orbiting a Sun-like star. Learn about this potential gas giant in our ...

Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting one of three stars in the stellar system ...

One of the brightest stars in the night sky seems to be orbited by a planet like Jupiter. The news is sure to cheer fans of ...

If Earth needs to borrow a cup of sugar, it's comforting to know that there may be a convenient, possibly habitable, world ...

It would orbit within Alpha Centauri A’s habitable zone, the starlight-bathed region where liquid water can persist on a ...

In some of its most ambitious work yet, the James Webb Space Telescope looked to spot a planet in a potentially habitable ...

There may be a habitable world at the Sun's closest solar twin. In the complex space inhabited by the Alpha Centauri triple ...

Researchers may have discovered a gas giant orbiting the star Alpha Centauri A, and it appears to be in the star's habitable ...

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Alpha Centauri is 4.37 light-years away — more than 25.6 trillion miles, or more than 276,000 times the distance from the Earth to the sun.