Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits ...

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 currently ...

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NASA could one day send a fusion-powered probe to Proxima Centauri b - a potentially habitable exoplanet located just over four light years from Earth - with new research indicating the mission could ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Artist’s conception of the newly discovered planet Gliese 12 ...

Ever since we found an exoplanet around the nearest star from Earth, there's been intense interest in whether it could host life. Today's news points in the opposite direction. Share on Facebook ...

NASA has just unveiled its latest selection of advanced concepts for further exploration, and they’re as wild and intriguing as we’ve come to expect. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes NASA, in its ...

The ALMA Observatory in Chile has detected dust around the closest star to the Solar System, Proxima Centauri. These new observations reveal the glow coming from cold dust in a region between one to ...

Follow the first decades of Aurora Prime, a fusion-powered spacecraft carrying 1,800 humans on a 100-year voyage to Proxima ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is what a recent study accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal ...