The Sun isn’t the only star to produce stellar flares. On April 21, 2021, a team of astronomers published new research describing the brightest flare ever measured from Proxima Centauri in ultraviolet ...

Just over four light-years away, the Alpha Centauri system holds the closest worlds beyond our own that might support life. One, Proxima Centauri b, is a confirmed Earth-mass planet in its star's ...

An enigmatic radio signal from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the Sun’s nearest stellar neighbor, has set the internet ablaze with rumor and speculation. It could turn out to be the real deal — a ...

Shining brightly in this Hubble image is our closest stellar neighbour: Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri lies in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur), just over four light-years from Earth.

Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth, is one of several potential candidates for hosting aliens within its system. However, a recent incident involving the star has had scientists and experts ...

Proxima b is very promising. It orbits a red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri in a system with three stars in it. Proxima Centauri is small. It only has between 7.5% and 50% of our Sun’s mass.

Well, it might be aliens. Then again, in the tradition of Pogo it might just be us, led astray by our own technology. A story in Britain’s Guardian newspaper today (December 18) reports that ...