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 ...

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 ...

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 ...