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

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

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha Centauri, new research has revealed.

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

This discovery represents a major milestone in the search for exoplanets around our nearest Sun-like neighbour.

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

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Our nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, is moving towards us at a slow and steady pace. In about 3,000 years, the triple star system will be at its closest point to Earth, but new research ...

Alpha Centauri is racing toward us at 0.007 light-years per century (80,000 kilometers per hour) and will be closest 28,000 years from now, when it will be 3.2 light-years from Earth.