25 August 2016
Earth-sized planet found around our nearest neighbouring star
... from its parent star, due to its close proximity. "The discovery of the potentially habitable planet around Proxima Cen is the culmination of 30 years of work that has improved stellar velocity measurement precision from 300 m/s to 1 m/s," said...
28 February 2018
Habitability of nearest exoplanet in doubt after powerful flare
... for Science, who is lead author of the research paper recently submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters. “It’s likely that Proxima b was blasted by high energy radiation during this flare,” MacGregor explained. “Over the billions of years since...
15 November 2017
Earth-mass temperate exoplanet found close by
... the second-closest temperate planet to be detected after the discovery of Proxima b last year. However, in ‘only’ 79, 000 years, this ...this period, Ross 128 b will then take over from Proxima b and become the closest exoplanet to Earth! The ...
01 December 2017
Search for life more difficult than previously assumed
... by keeping harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays at bay. But how would ozone on say Proxima b – our nearest exoplanet neighbour – look to us if we observed it with a telescope. Proxima b and the most promising of the TRAPPIST-1 family of planets, TRAPPIST...
23 June 2017
Will our next nearest exoplanet be found soon?
...for an Earth-like exoplanet around the closest star to us, Proxima Centauri. It was met with great success as within the ...had taken place. This time however, observational data from Proxima Centauri will be revealed, analysed and discussed in real ...
15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
... dwarf in just 11 days. Despite the close proximity of the Alpha Centauri system, it took many years to find Proxima b, so it is not surprising that scientists working on exoplanets would like to see the discovery process shortened significantly. One...
