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 ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet that could be in the habitable zone of its star. Therefore, it has garnered a lot of attention, including several missions designed to visit it and ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Artist’s conception of the newly discovered planet Gliese 12 ...

"Barnard b is one of the lowest-mass exoplanets known and one of the few known with a mass less than that of Earth." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile have found evidence of another planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun's closest space neighbor, Proxima Centauri. The star, just four light-years away, is known as a red dwarf, or ...