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

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

The design for a 36 mile long spacecraft, called Chrysalis, includes libraries, tropical forests and structural manufacturing ...

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

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

Astronomers spotted a dim object more than 10,000 times fainter than the star. It was located about twice the distance ...

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

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 the Avatar series, which centers on a moon that orbits a fictional gas giant ...

Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a possible gas giant the size of Saturn in the stellar system nearest our own ...

The closest exoplanets to the Solar System are around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. This little star is orbiting two bigger ...

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