Though it appears as a single bright speck in the sky, Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system, with several suspected exoplanets, including a super-Earth called Proxima Centauri b ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

“As the closest triple stellar system to Earth, Alpha Centauri system has attracted diverse studies in astronomy, including exoplanet stability,” Feng writes. Even though the entire Alpha ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

Scientists have discovered four new Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light-years away. Using advanced technology, these are ...

Researchers have detected four small exoplanets orbiting closely around ... after the three interconnected stars of the Alpha Centauri system. (Five potential planets have also been detected ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our own solar system ... Breakthrough Starshot aims to develop proof-of-concept tiny nanocraft (‘StarChips’), which would be able to travel to the Alpha Centauri ...

Researchers estimate over a million interstellar objects from Alpha Centauri may already be lurking in the icy shell surrounding our solar system. Stars don’t hoard their material—Gregg and ...

SEE ALSO: Webb telescope captures weird auroras on Neptune for the first time The sun's nearest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, likely clobers any orbiting exoplanets with radiation ...