Astronomers have found strong evidence of a giant gas planet orbiting a star in a solar system close to our own sun. Four light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Centauri triple-star system has long ...

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Although Venus approaches Earth closely at times, Mercury is on average the planet nearest to us over time.