While Proxima b is estimated to receive about the same amount of heat from Proxima Centauri as Earth does from the Sun, Proxima Centauri is a much smaller, cooler star — a red dwarf — and ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

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 ...

The study sheds light on Proxima Centauri’s unusually robust magnetic field, which fuels its flaring activity. As its ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The European Southern Observatory just announced the most exciting exoplanet discovery to date: An Earth-sized planet located just 4.25 light-years away in orbit ...

With the promise of revolutionizing our view of nearby star systems, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is poised to do ...

Proxima Centauri, a star four light-years from the ... a way to trace the properties of those particles." Though Proxima b may be nothing more than an irradiated rock, scientists are continuing ...

Proxima Centauri b, the star's only confirmed planet, is also assumed to be Earth-like, making it a particularly exciting candidate in the search for life. The simulation found that if Proxima ...

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 ...

The team uncovered ozone's role in shaping Proxima Centauri b's climate dynamics ... interactive ozone and other photochemical species in our quest to understand Earth-like exoplanets." ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Proxima Centauri, an active M dwarf star, exhibits intense flare activity in radio and millimeter wavelengths, as observed by ALMA. These flares, ranging from 10 ...

Proxima Centauri, a star four light-years from the sun, shoots out a violent solar flare in this artist's depiction.