Articles about Proxima Centauri

Five years after Pluto encounter, New Horizons probe does a far-out parallax experiment

NASA’s New Horizons probe has measured the distance to nearby stars using a technique that’s as old as the ancient… Read More

3-D climate modeling could fine-tune the search for faraway signs of alien life

Astronomers have identified thousands of stars that have planets, and that number could mushroom even faster when waves of next-generation… Read More

Newfound dust belts suggest that Proxima Centauri has more than one alien planet

Astronomers created a stir last year when they reported that the closest star beyond our own solar system harbors a… Read More

Breakthrough Starshot tests smallest space probes for interstellar mission

Breakthrough Starshot says it’s been testing prototype interstellar spacecraft no bigger than postage stamps in orbit for the past month,… Read More

Seemingly strange radio signals from a red dwarf star spark interest at Arecibo

The 1,000-foot-wide radio telescope at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory will take a closer look at a red dwarf star known… Read More

Stephen Hawking lays out plan for settling space, from moon and Mars to the stars

British physicist Stephen Hawking has repeatedly warned us that we have just a century or two to move off Earth,… Read More

NASA’s Kepler space telescope points to 10 new planets in the habitable zone

Astronomers say they’ve used NASA’s Kepler space telescope to discover 10 Earth-sized planet candidates where life could lurk. The 10… Read More

Very Large Telescope joins Breakthrough search for Alpha Centauri’s planets

One of the most powerful observing instruments on Earth, the Very Large Telescope, will join the search for potentially habitable… Read More

Breakthrough Watch: Alien-hunting effort takes telescopic aim at Proxima Centauri b

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – A multimillion-dollar campaign to look for evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations has added telescopic observations of the nearest known… Read More

Proxima’s progress: Why it’ll take years to learn what closest exoplanet is really like

University of Washington astronomer Rory Barnes says Proxima Centauri b is the biggest discovery in 20 years for planet hunters like… Read More

Shields up! Scientists tweak design of Alpha Centauri probes to minimize damage

The scientists behind the Breakthrough Starshot mission are already fine-tuning the design for their nano-probes to increase the odds they’ll… Read More

Proxima Centauri b confirmed! Potentially habitable planet orbits the star next door

The rumors you’ve heard are mostly true: Scientists say the star that’s closest to our solar system has a planet that… Read More