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 ...

Just 4.3 light years from Earth lies a star called Alpha Centauri A, which is famous for being the nearest star that resembles our own Sun. In the popular Avatar movies, this star's system is home to ...

Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple system closest to our own sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the ...

Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting one of three stars in the stellar system closest to our own. By Katrina Miller Alpha Centauri has gripped the imaginations ...

The closest exoplanets to the Solar System are around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. This little star is orbiting two bigger Sun-like stars, which are known as Alpha Centauri A and B. For over a ...

Astronomers at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, led by Kevin Wagner, have identified evidence for a potential ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest Sun-like star to Earth. Located just 4 light-years away, this possible ...

A sunlike star next door called Alpha Centauri A may host a huge planet, researchers report in two studies in press in Astrophysical Journal Letters. The planet candidate orbits in its star’s ...

This artist's concept shows what the gas giant planet that orbits the star Alpha Centauri A could look like. (R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) | NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI) Just 4.3 light years from Earth lies a ...