If Life Exists On Proxima Centauri B, ... The Extremely Large Telescope will have 37 times as much light as the James Webb Space Telescoppe, thanks to its massive 39 meters of diameter. ESO.

Getting to Proxima Centauri b will take a lot of new technologies, but there are increasingly exciting reasons to do so. Both public and private efforts have started seriously looking at ways to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.