15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
...A & B, and a smaller red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri is already famous for harbouring a a rocky planet – Proxima... just 11 days. Despite the close proximity of the Alpha Centauri system, it took many years to find Proxima b, so...
17 April 2019
Proxima Centauri may host a second exoplanet, but its first might not be there
... every 11 days around the nearest star to us; Proxima Centauri. Now a different team of researchers have found another, ...-234 degrees Celsius, because of the relative coolness of Proxima Centauri. Hopes of finding a true Earth-like water-world would ...
12 October 2016
Proxima Centauri reveals yet more intrigue as a cycle of dramatic sunspots is observed
...has a regular cycle of sunspots. At first glance, Proxima Centauri seems nothing like our Sun as it is only one-tenth ...Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have discovered that Proxima Centauri also undergoes a similar cycle except it only lasts ...
10 December 2021
Extreme exoplanet changes the picture about massive stars as planet hosts
...it exceedingly difficult to form a large planet, but that is what Janson and colleagues have found. Named b Centauri (AB)b or b Centauri b, this extreme exoplanet is 10 times as massive as Jupiter, making it one of the most massive planets ever found...
25 August 2016
Earth-sized planet found around our nearest neighbouring star
... Centaurus. Its light is masked by its brighter companions, Alpha Centauri A and B, however the tell-tale sign of a tiny wobble... host star than Mercury is to our Sun, however as Proxima Centauri is cooler than the Sun, Proxima b is within the star’s...
03 November 2017
Dust belt hints at more planets around our nearest star
... Pedro Amado, also from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía. A knowledge of the dust environment around Proxima Centauri is essential for another reason too. Hoping to launch in the next couple of decades is Starshot - a project which will...
