A spacecraft named Chrysalis could one day carry 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own. This ...

There may be a habitable world at the Sun's closest solar twin. In the complex space inhabited by the Alpha Centauri triple ...

Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting one of three stars in the stellar system ...

The sci-fi-like project won the top prize in the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a contest for designing hypothetical ...

Breakthrough Watch: Alien-hunting effort takes telescopic aim at Proxima Centauri b by Alan Boyle on October 3, 2016 at 10:59 am Share 1 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

Proxima Centauri is located around 4.25 light-years away making it the nearest star to Earth beyond our sun. The star's planet, called Proxima b, is approximately the same mass as Earth and orbits ...

Travelling to our nearest star system is the ultimate one-way trip — but could you live your life among the stars? Let us ...

The star is called Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf that’s part of the Alpha Centauri system, 4.2 light-years away.

Proxima Centauri itself is an interesting star that's very different from our own. It's extraordinarily small, dim, and faint by solar standards, possessing just: 15% of the Sun's radial size, ...

Proxima Centauri's no good, very bad day Flare illuminates lack of a dust ring; puts habitability of Proxima b in question Date: February 26, 2018 Source: Carnegie Institution for Science Summary ...

Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and a red dwarf star. A red dwarf is the smallest, coolest and most common kind of star in our region of the Milky Way galaxy.