Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Our sun also spits out the occasional extreme flare, but Proxima Centauri, which is located about 4 light-years from us, is likely more active ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 around the star Proxima Centauri.

A small star just over four light-years from Earth has just made ... have detected the most powerful flare ever recorded from Proxima Centauri, our closest stellar neighbor. The flare, described ...

The diameter of the Milky Way, is approximately 106,000 light years. The distance from the Sun to Proxima Centauri, our next nearest star, is approximately 4.25 light years. Barnard's Star is a ...

More information: Kiana Burton et al, The Proxima Centauri Campaign—First Constraints on Millimeter Flare Rates from ALMA, The Astrophysical Journal (2025). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ada5f2 ...

Propelled to a fifth the speed of light by a laser beam more powerful than a million suns, tiny spacecraft envisioned by the Breakthrough Starshot initiative are depicted around Proxima Centauri b ...

Meadows and Currie started by simulating the ELT's eventual review of Proxima Centauri (the nearest star to Earth after our Sun) and its planetary neighborhood. Just 4.24 light-years away ...

In 2016, researchers at Queen Mary discovered an exoplanet, Proxima ... the Alpha Centauri system to seek evidence of life. The late Stephen Hawking confirmed that the StarChips should take 20 years ...

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 ...