Using ALMA, astronomers discovered that Proxima Centauri produces frequent, high-energy millimeter-wavelength flares that could significantly alter or strip the atmospheres of its habitable-zone ...

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

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

At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

A small star just over four light-years from Earth has just made a very big statement. In a groundbreaking new study, ...

Proxima Centauri, a star four light-years from the sun, shoots out a violent solar flare in this artist's depiction. Credit: NSF / AUI / NSF NRAO / S. Dagnello Only a few years ago, astronomers ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

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 ...

For the closest star, Proxima Centauri, we could detect life on an Earth-like world with only 10 hours of observation. For a Neptune-sized world, the ELT could capture planetary spectra in about ...

Credit: M. Kornmesser/European Southern Observatory Alpha Centauri is home to three stars, including the closest star to Earth other than the sun, Proxima Centauri, and an unknown number of planets.

Though it appears as a single bright speck in the sky, Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system, with several suspected exoplanets, including a super-Earth called Proxima Centauri b ...