Though it appears as a single bright speck in the sky, Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system, with several suspected exoplanets, including a super-Earth called Proxima Centauri b ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

The quartet of planets — named b, c, d and e — are some of the smallest rocky worlds ever detected. NASA says each has a mass ...

but Proxima Centauri, which lies near it, has two confirmed exoplanets. Notably, scientists have noticed signs of a planet being in Alpha Centauri A.

Researchers estimate over a million interstellar objects from Alpha Centauri may already be lurking in the icy shell surrounding our solar system. Stars don’t hoard their material—Gregg and ...

Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar system after the Alpha Centauri system, NASA announced. Located only six ...

One of the most powerful features of the ELT will be to capture faint atmospheric spectra from the atmospheres of exoplanets ... Proxima Centauri, we could detect life on an Earth-like world ...