Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...

A giant planet the size of Saturn orbiting a sun-like star has potentially been identified in our nearest neighbouring stellar system, Alpha Centauri. At just four light years from Earth, Alpha ...

How close to Earth could we find the next Earth-like exoplanet? This is what two papers accepted in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of more than two dozen researchers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Centauri triple-star system has long been a compelling target for scientists to search ...

A "super-Earth" has been discovered orbiting the closest single star to our Sun, scientists said Wednesday in a breakthrough that could shine a light on Earths nearest planetary neighbours.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers detected a potential gas giant exoplanet, designated S1, orbiting Alpha Centauri A, a star in the closest stellar system to Earth. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a ...

Astronomers have found strong evidence of a giant gas planet orbiting a star in a solar system close to our own sun. Four light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Centauri triple-star system has long ...