Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting one of three stars in the stellar system closest to our own.

It would orbit within Alpha Centauri A’s habitable zone, the starlight-bathed region where liquid water can persist on a planet’s surface. Announced on August 7 and described in two preprint papers that have been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters,

NASA scientists say the new planet orbits in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star in the Alpha Centauri stellar system - and it could have moons with the potential to support life