Since Earth is the only known inhabited planet and we happen to live here, it’s only natural to regard it as the ideal place for life to exist, and to assume that another life-bearing planet would be ...

Alongside the announcement of another BlackBerry 10 SDK for developers, RIM also announced that it has created a second developer device it’s calling “BlackBerry Dev Alpha B.” RIM tells us that it ...

BlackBerry's Dev Alpha handset proved to be quite the popular item when it was revealed earlier this year. It was so popular, in fact, that the company ran through the 5,000 it constructed in short ...

European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system — the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered ...

European astronomers working from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile have discovered a planet slightly more massive than Earth, orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri triple star system – ...

Rob Wittenmyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council Discovery Grants program, supporting a campaign to detect Earth-mass planets in the Alpha Centauri system. The candidate planet – ...

Alpha Centauri is a star system with components 4.2 to 4.4 light-years from Earth and comprises three stars. It is the closest star system to the solar system, and one of its stars is the nearest star ...