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

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

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

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

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 ...

While the planet itself is unlikely to support life, its moons could be promising candidates for habitability.

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

The confirmation of the gas giant planet would mark a milestone as the closest planet to Earth that orbits in a habitable ...

A smudge of light spotted by the James Webb telescope near Alpha Centauri A could be the planet with the tightest orbit ever ...

Could James Cameron's "Avatar" have foreseen a cosmic reality? The Avatar movies, starting with the 2009 blockbuster, ...

Alpha Centauri Bb's extreme closeness to its parent star probably gives the planet a surface temperature around 2,240 degrees Fahrenheit (1,227 degrees Celsius), making it unsuitable for life ...

Have you ever heard of Alpha Centauri? It's the star system closest to our own, and engineers now think they could make a ...