The closest planet to Earth outside the solar system is not a distant abstraction billions of miles beyond reach in some far corner of the galaxy. It orbits Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the ...

Astronomers have confirmed more than five thousand planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system, yet the question that captures public imagination remains simple: how close is the nearest world that ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have reported a potential detection of a Saturn-like exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri A: the closest Sun-like star to Earth, located just over ...

Currently, the closest exoplanet to Earth is Proxima Centauri b, which orbits the star Proxima Centauri, located 4 ...

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 ...

Join astronomers Franck Marchis (SETI Institute) and Julien Girard (Space Telescope Science Institute) for a 30-minute live discussion unpacking NASA’s exciting new findings from JWST. Just announced, ...

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 ...

What unreliable neighbours we have. Last year astronomers announced the discovery of a planet with a similar mass to Earth’s just 4.3 light years away in the nearby Alpha Centauri system. Another look ...

Before any major telescope commissioning, there are dozens of papers that attempt to define what we can expect from it. We're ...