Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms ...

The closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri (PC), is still about 8000 times further away from us than Pluto. Propelling a probe to PC will require a much higher cruising speed than we can ...

And toward the end of the decade, it is hoped that if the answer is ‘on Proxima Centauri b,’ we will have found it. ESO/M. Kornmesser That’s because Proxima Centauri b – located four light ...

Last month’s announcement… Read More University of Washington astronomer Rory Barnes says Proxima Centauri b is the biggest discovery in 20 years for planet hunters like himself, but it could ...

While Proxima b is estimated to receive about the same amount of heat from Proxima Centauri as Earth does from the Sun, Proxima Centauri is a much smaller, cooler star — a red dwarf — and ...

Let me give you an example. We know there is a planet orbiting our nearest neighbor star, Proxima Centauri. We call the planet Proxima b. We know this planet. We know it's rocky. We know it's ...

The European Southern Observatory just announced the most exciting exoplanet discovery to date: An Earth-sized planet located just 4.25 light-years away in orbit around the star Proxima Centauri.

Though it appears as a single bright speck in the sky, Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system, with several suspected exoplanets, including a super-Earth called Proxima Centauri b ...

Propelled to a fifth the speed of light by a laser beam more powerful than a million suns, tiny spacecraft envisioned by the Breakthrough Starshot initiative are depicted around Proxima Centauri b ...

In 2016, researchers at Queen Mary discovered an exoplanet, Proxima b, orbiting our nearest star, Proxima Centauri. An exoplanet is a planet outside our own solar system. This is the closest such ...