23 June 2017
Will our next nearest exoplanet be found soon?
... great success as within the habitable zone of our nearest red dwarf companion star, Proxima Centauri b was discovered. This time... the star. Barnard’s Star and Ross 154 are both red dwarfs too at 6 and 9.7 light years away respectively. Photometric...
25 August 2016
Earth-sized planet found around our nearest neighbouring star
...and is the closest exoplanet to us. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star located just over four light-years from our Solar ...of the Earth, orbiting about 7 million kilometres from the dwarf star. In comparison, the average distance between the Earth ...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
..., 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 in the background. Proxima b is the...
12 October 2016
Proxima Centauri reveals yet more intrigue as a cycle of dramatic sunspots is observed
...in store as scientists say that despite being a cool, red dwarf, the star has a regular cycle of sunspots. At ....) For bodies like Proxima Centauri however, the interior of a small red dwarf star should be convective all the way into the star's core, ...
03 July 2019
New study reveals detailed exoplanet atmosphere
...Sun, Gliese 3470 b may have formed very close to its red dwarf star as a dry, rocky object and piled on vast ...from the Sun, GJ 3470 b may have formed very close to its red dwarf star as a dry, rocky object. It then gravitationally pulled in hydrogen...
15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
..., in reality Alpha Centauri is a triple star system consisting of two sun-like stars, Alpha Cen A & B, and a smaller red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri is already famous for harbouring a a rocky planet – Proxima b – not much...
