The NEAR instrument has been hunting for planets in the Alpha Centauri system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The hunt for ...

A newfound alien world may force scientists to rethink some of their ideas about planet formation. An exoplanet 11 times more massive than Jupiter resides in b Centauri, a young binary star system ...

Researchers may have discovered a gas giant orbiting the star Alpha Centauri A, and it appears to be in the star's habitable zone. Reading time 3 minutes Exoplanet hunters have had an eye on Alpha ...

Before fulfilling its audacious dream of interstellar flight, Breakthrough Starshot—the private effort funded by billionaire Yuri Milner to conduct high-speed robotic voyages to the stars within a ...