At the end of August, a scientific team from the European Southern Observatory announced the discovery of Proxima b, the first exoplanet ever discovered around Proxima Centauri, the closest star in ...

The candidate planet Proxima d is estimated to be just 25% as massive as Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The sun's nearest ...

For nearly 30 years, scientists have been discovering planets beyond our Solar System: the exoplanets of the Universe. We now know that practically every star has its own planetary system, and that ...

It's the biggest exoplanet news since the first one was spotted two decades ago. Meet Proxima b, the world beyond our solar system that future generations may visit one day. Eric Mack has been a CNET ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The discovery of a roughly Earth-size planet around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth, ...

A pale red dot not far from our sun may be orbited by a pale blue dot much different than Earth. In a shocking find, astronomers Wednesday announced their discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting ...

Just a cosmic hop, skip and jump away, an Earth-size planet orbits the closest star to our sun, Proxima Centauri. Ever since the discovery of the exoplanet — known as Proxima Centauri b— in 2016, ...

Scientists have spotted the largest flare ever recorded from the sun’s nearest neighbor, the star Proxima Centauri. The research, which appears today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, was led by ...