Proxima Centauri, a star four light-years from the sun, shoots out a violent solar flare in this artist's depiction. Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling ...
Artist's concept of a stellar flare from Proxima Centauri. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/S. Dagnello At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is ...
The rocky planet circling the closest star to the sun got hammered by a superpowerful flare last year, a new study reports. That's a bit of bad news for anyone hoping that the alien world, known as ...
A small star just over four light-years from Earth has just made a very big statement. In a groundbreaking new study, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have ...
New research suggests that the telescope could be poised to detect an Earth-sized planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor, just over four light-years away. While we’ve long ...
What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is what a recent study accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal ...
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