November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
.... Proxima b shown orbiting Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf with a surface temperature of 3040 K, with the Alpha Centauri binary system shown in the background. Proxima b is the closest exoplanet to the Sun and also the closest potentially habitable...
24 November 2021
NASA successfully launches its DART mission
... Sun, the result of DART’s kinetic impact within the binary system can be measured much more easily than a change in ...of Earth’s orbit.” The spacecraft will intercept the Didymos system between 26 September and 1 October, 2022, intentionally slamming ...