According to the study, which was published in Science Advances, a planet now known as Proxima Centauri c may also be hanging out around the star. Even more exciting, scientists think that the ...

Also, flares from the Proxima Centauri red dwarf that this planet orbits might have already wrecked the planet’s atmosphere. Proxima c is at least 6 times bigger than Earth itself and as such is ...

Only the three-star Alpha Centauri star system, which is 4.1 light-years distant, is closer. In 2016, astronomers found a planet orbiting the nearest star to Earth in this system, called Proxima ...

Clear evidence of a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System, has been found by an international team of scientists led by astronomers at Queen Mary. Using facilities ...

"Astronomers have recently found there are two 'Earth-like' rocky planets around Proxima Centauri, one within the 'habitable zone' where any water could be in liquid form," said Andrew Zic from ...

An curved arrow pointing right. When Proxima Centauri b was first discovered, many scientists had high hopes for it to inhabit living organisms. However, a new study published in The Astrophysical ...

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 ...

This, of course, has obvious advantages. Because Breakthrough Starshot’s payload is so small, reaching Proxima Centauri—the nearest star to us in the Alpha Centauri triple-star system—would ...