22 October 2018
Frequent superflares spell doom for life around red dwarfs
.... Indeed, most of the exoplanets that have been found in a star’s ”habitable-zone" orbit red dwarfs, including Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun. Red dwarfs therefore make ideal targets in which to search for life...
14 November 2018
Super-Earth exoplanet found around closest single star to the Sun
....” The international team of astronomers behind the discovery were also the same team who in 2016 spotted Proxima Centauri b; the closest known exoplanet to us only four light years away. Using the same method, known as the...
18 February 2019
Gigantic remnant found around an exploding star
... a lot of planet-building material to get going with [to put the distance into perspective, the nearest star to us (Proxima Centauri) is ‘only’ four light years away and it would take a human travelling at a constant velocity of 60,000 kilometres per...
07 September 2020
A new study helps narrow the search for intelligent life
... 50 parsecs of the Earth; one parsec is about 30 trillion kilometres, or just over three light-years. For comparison, Proxima Centauri, the nearest known star to earth other than the sun, is about 1.3 parsecs (4.24 ly) away. Although the results...
