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Astronomers Spot The Closest Ever Identified Exoplanet In A Habitable Zone, And It’s In Our Nearest Star System

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Alpha Centauri should harbor detectable, Earth-like planets, according to new study by UC Santa Cruz astronomers

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A rocky planet similar to Earth may be orbiting one of our nearest stellar neighbors and could be detected using existing techniques, according to a new study led by astronomers at the ...
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Two New Studies Attempt To Prove The Existence Of An Exoplanet In The Habitable Zone Of Alpha Centauri A

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If There's An Earth-Like Planet Around Alpha Centauri It Might Be Like This

If there are planets around Alpha Centauri, the time to find them is now. Thanks to the current position of the star system, astronomers have the best conditions to spot new exoplanets in our cosmic ...
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‘Lost in Space': How Far Away Is Alpha Centauri, and Could Humans Live There?

Humans are looking to colonize the rest of the universe in Netflix’s reimagining of the 1960s sci-fi TV show “Lost in Space.” Of course, it doesn’t go very well — hence the name of the show. When ...
SpaceRef

Finding Planets in the Alpha Centauri System “With Relatively Cheap Instrumentation”

“The Alpha Centauri AB system is an attractive one for radial velocity observations to detect potential exoplanets. The high metallicity of both Alpha Centauri A and B suggest that they could have ...
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JWST detects giant exoplanet in the Alpha Centauri star system - just 4 light-years away

A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the astronomy world. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have detected ...
Inverse

An Upcoming Space Mission Could Find a Holy Grail Planet

Alpha Centauri is our closest stellar neighbor, a binary star system located just 4.376 light-years away. Despite its proximity, repeated astronomical surveys have failed to find hard evidence of ...
Inverse

A new telescope may finally find a livable planet around nearby Alpha Centauri

Is there life beyond Earth? Across galaxies and billions of star systems, the possibility for life on other planets is endless. But it sure would be convenient if life was located right next door, ...
The Spokesman-Review

Possible planet is spotted around sunlike Alpha Centauri star

A team of astronomers on Thursday provided the strongest evidence yet that a planet circles one of Alpha Centauri’s sunlike stars. The world is at the very edge of the region around the star where ...
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Project Blue Mission For Earthlike Planets in Alpha Centauri Rallies Community Support

BoldlyGo Institute and a consortium of prominent organizations including The SETI Institute, UMass Lowell, and Mission Centaur launched a crowdfunding campaign to support first phase of mission ...