The Alpha Centauri AB system is an attractive one for radial velocity observations to detect potential exoplanets. The high metallicity of both Alpha Centauri A and B suggest that they could have ...

Imaging planets orbiting around nearby stars, which could potentially harbour life, has become a possibility thanks to the progress made in observational methods by an international team of ...

A team of astronomers on Thursday provided the strongest evidence yet that a planet circles one of Alpha Centauri’s sunlike stars. The world is at the very edge of the region around the star where ...

Researchers may have discovered a gas giant orbiting the star Alpha Centauri A, and it appears to be in the star's habitable zone. Reading time 3 minutes Exoplanet hunters have had an eye on Alpha ...

As Alpha Centauri moves away from its companion star, astronomers are training new instruments on the system -- hoping to catch sight of an elusive "superhabitable" planet. Share on Facebook (opens in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Lasers could be used to propel tiny spacecraft toward Alpha Centauri, scientists suggest. | ...

These are exciting times for exoplanet research, moving from demography towards detailed characterization. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), successfully launched in December 2021, is projected ...

Scientists may have found the first planet ever detected around our closest “solar twin,” a star called Alpha Centauri A, the same real-life star that was home to the fictional moon Pandora in James ...

This artist's impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that is the closest to Earth in this image released on October 17, 2012. REUTERS/ESO/L.

The discovery of a possible gas giant in the habitable zone of one of the closest stars to Earth opens up exciting possibilities. Could a moon orbiting this planet harbor life, similar to Pandora in ...

The closest star system to the Earth is the famous Alpha Centauri group. Located in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur), at a distance of 4.3 light-years, this system is made up of the binary ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. This artist's impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that ...