Scientists use the Webb Telescope to explore Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, searching for exoplanets. Discover how ...

The 'LIFE' space telescope fleet could find out 4 rocky exoplanets found around ... Mysterious radio signal from Proxima Centauri was definitely not aliens Alpha Centauri is the closest solar ...

Despite their distance, Pete Klupar, chief engineer of Breakthrough Watch, is positive about our prospects of sending a probe to reach exoplanets around the stars of Alpha Centauri. He said ...

Considering Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to Earth, it is perhaps unsurprising that it's an area of intense searches for exoplanets. Indeed, astronomers have spotted several suspected ...

The Centauri system contains a few more stars, though. Now, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) has gotten an upgrade that will help it scan those other stars for evidence of exoplanets (Opens in a new ...

Alpha Centauri is the closest star to Earth outside ... Today, there are thousands of known exoplanets orbiting stars outside the solar system. Those planets have been discovered using the NASA ...

There probably would be. Alpha Centauri is an attractive candidate for the search for exoplanets because Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B are similar to our own sun. Astronomers have also ...

The new planet around Alpha Centauri B matches Earth only in terms of its mass - making it among the smallest exoplanets we know of. But in a catalogue with hundreds of confirmed planets and ...

The researchers looked at the nearby Alpha Centauri system ... C (also known as Proxima Centauri). Proxima Centauri is known to host exoplanets, but the other two stars are not.

Given that no exoplanets have been confirmed around Alpha Centauri A or B, Debra Fischer, of Yale University, US, is cautious about the new results, which appear in The Astrophysical Journal. “Theory ...