The habitable zone for complex life (blue ... This narrower zone excludes many exoplanets including Proxima Centauri b and TRAPPIST-1 planets e, f and g (black dots). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Proxima b, orbiting our nearest star, Proxima Centauri. An exoplanet is a planet outside our own solar system. This is the closest such planet ever discovered, and furthermore, it is within the ...

"Astronomers have recently found there are two 'Earth-like' rocky planets around Proxima Centauri, one within the 'habitable zone' where any water could be in liquid form," said Andrew Zic from ...

New observations show that Proxima Centauri routinely ... these measurements.” Proxima b, the Earth-sized planet orbiting within the star’s habitable zone, remains one of the most promising ...

As it happens, there’s a rocky planet, called Proxima Centauri b, orbiting in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf that’s the nearest star to our own, about 4.2 light-years ...

While Proxima b is estimated to receive about the same amount of heat from Proxima Centauri as Earth does from the Sun, Proxima Centauri is a much smaller, cooler star — a red dwarf — and ...

But Proxima Centauri's flares are much more powerful, and we know it has rocky planets in the habitable zone. "What are these flares doing to their atmospheres? Is there such a large flux of ...

Last month’s announcement… Read More University of Washington astronomer Rory Barnes says Proxima Centauri b is the biggest discovery in 20 years for planet hunters like himself, but it could ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The European Southern Observatory just announced the most exciting exoplanet discovery to date: An Earth-sized planet located just 4.25 light-years away in orbit ...