The Space Race on MSN4d
How Humanity Will Colonize New Solar Systems!
Humanity’s greatest journey might not be to Mars, but to an entirely new solar system. Proxima Centauri b, an exoplanet in ...
National Review8y
Understanding the Discovery of Proxima b: A Second Earth
the closest star to the solar system. Still bigger news is that the planet — named Proxima b – is strikingly similar to Earth: Its mass is estimated to be comparable to Earth’s — only ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN1d
‘Cosmic Highway’ Discovered: How Alpha Centauri’s Debris May Link Our Solar System to Faraway Stars
In a groundbreaking new study, researchers have unveiled the existence of a “cosmic highway”—a pathway of interstellar ...
Chunks of Alpha Centauri—Our Closest Stellar Neighbor—Might Have Already Reached Us
A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...
Queen Mary University of London3y
Our nearest neighbours? The astonishing discovery of exoplanet Proxima b
In 2016, researchers at Queen Mary discovered an exoplanet, Proxima b, orbiting our nearest star, Proxima Centauri. An exoplanet is a planet outside our own solar system. This is the closest such ...
Forbes4mon
Found: A Planet Orbiting The Closest Single Star To Our Sun
Just six light-years from the solar ... system, which is 4.1 light-years distant, is closer. In 2016, astronomers found a planet orbiting the nearest star to Earth in this system, called Proxima ...
ScienceAlert3d
Alpha Centauri Particles Already Lurk in Our Solar System, Study Suggests
"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...