Astronomers have identified Proxima Centauri b, a rocky planet just over four light-years away, as the closest potentially ...

The existence of a potentially habitable planet orbiting our closest neighbor, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, is both an extremely exciting event and sort of "more of the same." While Proxima b is ...

Alpha Centauri, one of the two "Pointer Stars" that help stargazers find the Southern Cross in the Southern Hemisphere, may have a planet in orbit around it. If it does, the Webb Telescope will find ...

The nearest star to Earth is, of course, the sun. The nearest star system to Earth, beyond the sun, is the interesting star system known as Proxima Centauri. A red dwarf star located 4.244 light years ...

Proxima Centauri (Latin , meaning "next to" or "nearest to") is a red dwarf about 4.24 light-years from the Sun, inside the G-cloud, in the constellation of Centaurus. It was discovered in 1915 by ...