A University of Arizona professor is optimistic about finding life on a newly discovered planet located in the Alpha Centauri system, which is the closest solar system to ours. The planet is believed ...

There may be a habitable world at the Sun's closest solar twin. In the complex space inhabited by the Alpha Centauri triple star system, JWST has just discerned the presence of a giant exoplanet ...

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 ...

What makes 3I/ATLAS especially intriguing is that the comet might be three billion years older than our entire Solar System.

Astronomers have discovered 2017 OF21, a distant dwarf planet candidate located about 90 times farther from the Sun than Earth, making it more than twice as far as Pluto. With a highly elongated orbit ...

Discovered: Once Earth's ruined we should hightail it for the Tau Ceti system; how reindeers get red noses; one in two men will get cancer; what flying squirrels have in common with Top Gun. A ...

Venus is often known as Earth’s twin because it is the closest planet to Earth in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

New research suggests that technological civilizations in the Milky Way are extremely rare, with the closest potentially ...