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An artist's impression of a flare from Proxima Centauri, modeled after the loops of glowing hot gas seen in the largest solar flares. Exoplanet Proxima b is shown in the foreground. Proxima b orbits ...

Even though humanity might not have to leave the Earth in your lifetime, we should start preparing early on. Not only could ...

In August astronomers announced that the nearby star Proxima Centauri hosts an Earth-sized planet (called Proxima b) in its habitable zone. At first glance, Proxima Centauri seems nothing like our Sun ...

An artist’s conception of the planet Proxima Centauri b orbiting the star Proxima Centauri (Creative Commons) A study detailing the habitability of a nearby exoplanet appears to have caught the ...

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Attention human. You are receiving an interstellar radio transmission .And it could be coming from one of the nearest exoplanets, Proxima Centauri b.

The ALMA Observatory in Chile has detected dust around the closest star to the Solar System, Proxima Centauri. These new observations reveal the glow coming from cold dust in a region between one to ...