Proxima Centauri b is approximately 1.3 times the mass of Earth and completes an orbit of its parent star every 11.2 Earth days. It receives about 65% of the sunlight Earth does.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

But as suspected, first contact is with aliens located light years away, and not in the corn field down the road. Unfortunately, a light year ... Making Contact with Tharg of Proxima Centauri B (SETI ...

19:16, Thu, Jul 10, 2025 Updated: 19:17, Thu, Jul 10, 2025 NASA could one day send a fusion-powered probe to Proxima Centauri b – a potentially habitable exoplanet located just over four light ...