The James Webb Space Telescope has just unveiled the clearest image ever captured of Proxima B, a potentially habitable exoplanet located just 4.2 light-years away from Earth. This groundbreaking ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet that could be in the habitable zone of its star. Therefore, it has garnered ...

Life on Proxima b Is Not Having a Good Time . Paul M. Sutter Universe Today December 12, 2022 European Southern Observatory via AP. The nearest known exoplanet to Earth, the planet orbiting Proxima ...

All told, Proxima b receives about 1,000 times more solar wind radiation than the Earth does. This would make it extremely difficult for the planet to host an atmosphere, let alone liquid water.

That means Proxima b is in the range where liquid water could exist on the surface. Of course, the actual existence of water on Proxima b depends on a great many factors.

Proxima Centauri, the sun's closest neighbor, likely destroys any chance of an atmosphere around the closest Earth-like exoplanet, a new study finds.

Despite its close proximity to our solar system, Barnard's star is too faint to see with the naked eye. A simple eight-inch amateur telescope should be able to spot it in deep space, though.. This ...

We get worried enough here on Earth when the sun pops off a large solar flare, but at Proxima Centauri b, the closest planet to our solar system, they can be lethal. Read post here.

Buffalo 8 has acquired worldwide rights to 'Invaders from Proxima B,' the science fiction comedy starring Samantha Sloyan and Ward Roberts.