Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a new Earth-like exoplanet, Proxima b, located in the Alpha Centauri system. This remarkable planet lies within the "habitable zone" of its star, where ...

Proxima Centauri, just 4.24 light-years from Earth, is the closest known star to our Sun. Though it’s the smallest member of ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet that could be in the habitable zone of its star. Therefore, it has garnered ...

New star maps could dash hopes of finding life on the nearest exoplanet to Earth The nearest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, hosts a small rocky world in the habitable zone of that star.

Our neighboring star, Proxima Centauri, has emitted a stellar flare is 100 times more powerful than any solar flare from our sun.

An artist’s conception shows Proxima Centauri b orbiting its parent star, a red dwarf, with the two other stars of the Alpha Centauri system in the far background. (Credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO ...

The nearby star Proxima Centauri has long been considered a potential place to search for extraterrestrial life. The more we learn about the star, the more it looks like living on a planet near ...

Astronomers have evidence of a “super-Earth” in the Proxima Centauri star system just 4.2 light years distant.

Astronomers have not yet directly seen or snapped images of the planet. Rather, Proxima B was detected after roughly 16 years of analyzing telescopic recordings of the planet's star, Proxima Centauri.

Violent space weather could limit life on nearby exoplanets Proxima Centauri might act too violently for its planets to host alien life. By Paola Rosa-Aquino Published Dec 11, 2020 3:03 PM EST ...