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

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

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 ...

We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks," asteroids from the triple star system Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri is the closest star ...

These objects range from microscopic in size to well over 100 yards in diameter ... including a super-Earth called Proxima Centauri b, with more thought to be lurking in the shadows.

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.