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Efforts to send some type of man-made probe to the Alpha Centauri system may have gotten a huge boost Tuesday as the European Southern Observatory (ESO) confirmed the existence of a planet around ...

What if the nearest star to our solar system had planets orbiting around it? Science already knows of one planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, a star just 4.2 light years distant. Now astronomers have ...

A new planet has been discovered in our galactic neighborhood. A team of astronomers has found evidence of a third planet orbiting around the nearest star to our Solar System, Proxima Centauri. Due to ...

The European Extremely Large Telescope is one of the yet-to-be-built observatories that could target the nearest exoplanet, Proxima Centauri b, for direct imaging.. (Credit: ESO) GUADALAJARA, Mexico – ...

Astronomers spot mystery world which could finally answer the question of whether we're alone in the universe Astronomers have discovered a “second Earth” orbiting our closest star and it could have ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After decades of uncertainty, it seems that astronomers may have found the strongest evidence yet ...

An artist’s conception shows Proxima Centauri b orbiting its parent star, a red dwarf, with the two other stars of the Alpha Centauri system in the far background. (Credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO) The ...