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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 ...

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 ...

A potential gas giant recently discovered orbiting in the habitable zone of one of the closest stars to Earth could have a moon capable of sustaining life — just like the alien world "Pandora" from ...

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 ...

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 ...