In a discovery that has been years in the making, researchers have confirmed the existence of a rocky planet named Proxima b orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, according to a ...

Tiny spacecraft could actually study Proxima b from orbit rather than just zoom past the newfound, potentially habitable alien world, a new study suggests. In April 2016, cosmologist Stephen ...

In a new study, an international team of researchers found that the minimum possible mass for Proxima b, which lies just 4.2 light-years from Earth, is just 17% more massive than our planet.

A team at the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory (CNRS) believes planet Proxima b, which was first spotted in August, has seas and could even be an “ocean planet” with water covering its whole ...

That's not the case with Proxima b, a small exoplanet that orbits the nearest star to our own, Proxima Centauri. It's a mere 24 trillion miles away! Hey, four light years is right next door in ...

Scientists have discovered a new and potentially habitable exoplanet - and it just so happens to orbit the nearest star to our own Sun. Thought to be 1.3 times the size of Earth, Proxima b is said ...

New models suggest that the rocky planet dubbed “Proxima b” could potentially support human life. The planet, first discovered by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), was found orbiting th ...

Astronomers observed a huge solar flare from the star just four light-years away that increased its brightness a thousandfold for about 10 seconds and probably showered nearby planet Proxima b ...

It's being orbited by a planet known as Proxima b, which was actually discovered back in 2016 using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher, or HARPS for short. It's a piece of equipment ...