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Scientists have spotted the largest flare ever recorded from the sun’s nearest neighbor, the star Proxima Centauri. The research, which appears today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, was led by ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest exoplanet to Earth. It is an Earth-mass world right in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star just 4 light-years from Earth. It receives about 65% of the energy Earth ...

A new planet has been discovered in our galactic neighborhood. A team of astronomers has found evidence of a third planet orbiting around the nearest star to our Solar System, Proxima Centauri. Due to ...

Earth may have a new planetary neighbor, orbiting around the next-nearest star system to our own. This new neighbor, residing just 4.2 light years away, is strangely reminiscent of Earth, with some ...