An artist’s concept of a possible gas-giant planet with the two stars Alpha Centauri A and B. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC)
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Nature 644, 589-590 (2025)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02549-z
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Correction 18 August 2025: A previous version of this story gave the wrong name for the author of reference 2. This has now been corrected.
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