An alien planet discovered around a star in the Alpha Centauri system, the nearest to our own sun, has astronomers buzzing, and not just because it's the closest exoplanet to Earth ever seen.

The star system closest to our own sun hosts a planet with roughly Earth's mass and may harbor other alien worlds as well, a new study reports.Astronomers detected the alien planet around the ...

We now know that our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is host to at least two planets. But we're not sure if there are any planets near Alpha Centauri ... dubbed α-Cen-Earth—the researchers ...

the scientists calculated that there can't be any planets more than about 50 times the size of Earth around Alpha Centauri A, nor any planets bigger than about eight times the size of Earth around ...

While the hunt is on, researchers had fun describing the properties of a potential Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of that system. Alpha Centauri is made of three stars, Alpha Centauri A ...

Our sun's closest star system, Alpha Centauri, is "almost certainly" home to small Earth-like planets capable of harbouring alien life, scientists have claimed. Alpha Centauri, which is "only" 24. ...

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European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system — the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever ...

Astronomers detected the alien planet around the sunlike star Alpha Centauri B, which is part of a three-star system just 4.3 light-years away from us. The newfound world is about as massive as ...