It's almost certainly not an extraterrestrial telegram. But waves that seemed to come from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri ...

Some 4.24 lightyears away is Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun. Since the star was first discovered well over 100 years ago, researchers have discovered at least two exoplanets that orbit ...

Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth, is one of several potential candidates for hosting aliens within its system. However, a recent incident involving the star has had scientists and experts ...

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The nearby star Proxima Centauri has long been considered a potential place to search for extraterrestrial life. The more we learn about the star, the more it looks like living on a planet near the ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a third planet around the closest star to the sun, reinforcing the idea that planets are common around the stars of the galaxy, even some of its smallest. And while ...

It’s one of the most fascinating questions when it comes to our exploration of space: is there other life out there? With countless space scientists uniting in explaining to us that – given the vast ...

An exoplanet couldn't get any closer, and now it looks like there could be a pair just around the cosmic corner. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy ...

What is life like on Proxima b? This planet in the next star system along is, at just four light-years, by far the closest Earth-like planet we know about. The answer could be depressing: there is no ...

Andrew Zic received support from an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, and as a Graduate Student with CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science. Andrew is now a Research Plus ...

One of the planets that orbits around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, had been thought to exist within what astronomers call the habitable zone. While Proxima b is 20 times closer to ...

If you look up in the southern sky you can see the “pointer” stars, pointing towards the Southern Cross. One of these pointers is Alpha Centauri, which is actually a pair of Sun-like stars that are ...