19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
... issue and the scientific community have remained divided as to whether or not life could exist here. But, Proxima Centauri is not the only possible star that might be hiding an exoplanet. This red dwarf is one of three...
11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
...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. However detecting...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
... by Albert Einstein over a century ago. Scientists also discovered the nearest exoplanet to us orbiting our nearest star, Proxima B, speculating that it might be a water-world similar to our own, ESO sent a Trace Gas Orbiter to Mars (ExoMars...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
...on this scale. Still, the closest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri, would be more than 265 km away. At this ...astonishing velocity of 17 km/s; at this velocity, a flight to Proxima Centauri would take about 75,000 years ICF is under active research...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... destination - as far as exoplanets go It takes light a little over four years to cover the distance between Earth and Proxima Centauri b. Our current spacecraft technology cannot reach even a pitiful fraction of this speed: at the average velocity...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... guidelines to optimise their design, and prioritise which planets to point them at once they are operational. Proxima b shown orbiting Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf with a surface temperature of 3040 K, with the Alpha Centauri binary system shown...
