The rocky planet circling the closest star to the sun got hammered by a superpowerful flare last year, a new study reports. That's a bit of bad news for anyone hoping that the alien world, known as ...

Alpha Centauri, one of the two "Pointer Stars" that help stargazers find the Southern Cross in the Southern Hemisphere, may have a planet in orbit around it. If it does, the Webb Telescope will find ...

The nearest star to Earth is, of course, the sun. The nearest star system to Earth, beyond the sun, is the interesting star system known as Proxima Centauri. A red dwarf star located 4.244 light years ...

New research suggests that the telescope could be poised to detect an Earth-sized planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor, just over four light-years away. While we’ve long ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

An illustration of what it might look like to visit Kepler 16 b, a nearby exoplanet with twin suns. Credit: NASA Imagine a planet where molten diamond rains from the sky, hurled sideways by winds that ...