Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits ...
Alpha Centauri, one of the two "Pointer Stars" that help stargazers find the Southern Cross in the Southern Hemisphere, may have a planet in orbit around it. If it does, the Webb Telescope will find ...
A small star just over four light-years from Earth has just made a very big statement. In a groundbreaking new study, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have ...
Proxima Centauri, a star four light-years from the sun, shoots out a violent solar flare in this artist's depiction. Credit: NSF / AUI / NSF NRAO / S. Dagnello Only a few years ago, astronomers ...
Artist's concept of a stellar flare from Proxima Centauri. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/S. Dagnello At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is ...
What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is what a recent study accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal ...
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