12 June 2020
New Horizon breaks record with first interstellar parallax experiment
... parallax shift is instantly visible. As seen from New Horizons, Proxima Centauri shifts by 32 arcseconds from where we see it on Earth, Tod...experiment breaks all records. These photographs of Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 – stars that are well-known...
30 August 2016
Is there anybody out there? SETI researchers look to explain mysterious signal
... in the position of HD 164595. Credit: Bursov et al.; Centauri Dreams. HD 164595 is a sunlike star, roughly 95 light-years...started generating buzz after Paul Gilster wrote about it on his Centauri Dreams site, bringing it to the public's attention. In...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... in space. Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner hopes to be responsible for the first Earth-made probe to visit Alpha Centauri. And, attempting to capitalise on an untapped market valued in the trillions of dollars, the United States now has four...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
...promise in further clinical trials under the trade name Marizomib. Sending a ‘genesis ark’ of extremophiles to Alpha Centauri on board ultra-light nanocrafts travelling at 20 percent of the speed of light could be a possibility using Project Starshot...
28 June 2017
The existence of orbiting supermassive black holes finally confirmed
... to watching and calculating the pace of a snail on the surface of the our nearest exoplanet – which orbits Proxima Centauri 4.243 light years away – as it moves at 1 cm a second. Pretty slow then. "What we've been able to do is a true technical...
22 October 2018
Frequent superflares spell doom for life around red dwarfs
..., 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...
