19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
..., announced scientists at The University of Sydney this week. Named after the Arabic-derived name for Alpha Centauri from antiquity, TOLIMAN stands for Telescope for Orbit Locus Interferometric Monitoring of our Astronomical Neighbourhood. It will...
28 February 2018
Habitability of nearest exoplanet in doubt after powerful flare
... at similar wavelengths. It is already known that Proxima Centauri experiences regular, although smaller, X-ray flares and indeed ...two minutes, but at its most energetic outburst, Proxima Centauri’s brightness increased by 1,000 times over 10 seconds....
11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
... Telescope (VLT) instrumentation in Chile being adapted to search for planets in the nearby star system Alpha Centauri. The Alpha Centauri system hit the headlines last year when scientists detected the closest exoplanet to us – Proxima b – around...
07 October 2016
Proxima b may be be home to oceans, says CNRS
... its star at only 7.5 million kilometers – about a tenth of the distance of Mercury from the Sun. However, as Proxima Centauri is much smaller and 1000 times weaker than the Sun, others claim that this distance may...
23 June 2017
Will our next nearest exoplanet be found soon?
... Earth-like exoplanet around the closest star to us, Proxima Centauri. It was met with great success as within the habitable ... place. This time however, observational data from Proxima Centauri will be revealed, analysed and discussed in real time...
28 August 2016
How habitable is Proxima b?
After the announcement on Wednesday that an Earth-Sized planet around Proxima Centauri has been found, a flurry of research papers have been released speculating on everything from the planets habitability ...
