11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
... year when scientists detected the closest exoplanet to us – Proxima b – around its third and faintest star, Proxima Centauri. Many have speculated as to the habitability of the planet and wondered if Proxima b has any other companions lurking nearby...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
...Earth, detecting the energy signatures of life, and imaging oceans and continents. Its first target will be Proxima b, an exoplanet in the Proxima Centauri star system. The first class of biosignature only tells us that microbial life is present, but...
12 June 2020
New Horizon breaks record with first interstellar parallax experiment
... taken on the same dates by telescopes on Earth, the parallax shift is instantly visible. As seen from New Horizons, Proxima Centauri shifts by 32 arcseconds from where we see it on Earth, Tod Lauer, New Horizons science team member who coordinated...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
...km/sec it would take just over 20 years to reach the Alpha Centauri system, which is 4.3 light years away. A distinguished panel was ...size of Earth orbiting Proxima Centauri, the small red dwarf star in the nearby Alpha Centauri system. The planet ...
08 May 2019
Tests start on first design of 'wafer scale' spacecraft
...not more. With a large enough laser array, you’d be at Alpha Centauri in something like 20 years, says Rupert - this is a fraction of ...one off in the direction of our nearest exoplanet, Proxima Centauri b, but it is aiming for a suborbital first ...
28 June 2017
The existence of orbiting supermassive black holes finally confirmed
... to watching and calculating the pace of a snail on the surface of the our nearest exoplanet – which orbits Proxima Centauri 4.243 light years away – as it moves at 1 cm a second. Pretty slow then. "What we've been able to do is a true technical...
