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

The James Webb Space Telescope has just unveiled the clearest image ever captured of Proxima B, a potentially habitable ...

HUMANS have been searching for aliens for decades – but all this time, intelligent extraterrestrial life could have found us, ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

"Our work supports both the scientific quest to answer the question 'Are we alone?' and practical efforts to manage the ...

Proxima Centauri is smaller and cooler than our sun, and the planet orbits much closer to its star than Mercury. Click on the image for a larger version. (Credit: M. Kornmesser and G. Coleman / ESO) ...

At just over four light years distant, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun in the entire Universe. We know it has one planet, called Proxima b, and there's decent evidence of a second ...

The Proxima Centauri system can be understood as a miniature version of our solar system. The red dwarf star is only about 1/7 the diameter of the sun, or about 1.5 times that of Jupiter.

Proxima Centauri is known to host one planet for sure — the roughly Earth-size Proxima b, which completes one orbit every 11 Earth days.

Proxima Centauri, a tiny red star just 4.2 light-years from Earth, would seem like a fine place to look, especially since astronomers believe they’ve spotted a rocky “super-Earth” orbiting ...