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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Pale blue dot, meet pale red dot. Astronomers have spent decades scouring the skies looking for Earth-sized planets around distant stars. And now they’ve found one, sitting smack in the habitable zone ...

Last month, as 2020 drew to a close and we on Earth completed one of our strangest orbits around the sun, news broke that astronomers had picked up a mysterious signal from another star. Astronomers ...

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 ...

Proxima Centauri, the star closest to our sun, may harbor a second planet—still. “Since the very first time we saw this [potential planetary] signal, we tried to be its worst enemies,” says Fabio Del ...