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 ...

What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars.

Some 4.24 lightyears away is Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun. Since the star was first discovered well over 100 years ago, researchers have discovered at least two exoplanets that orbit ...

The nearby star Proxima Centauri has long been considered a potential place to search for extraterrestrial life. The more we learn about the star, the more it looks like living on a planet near the ...

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Picture this. We're floating through the cosmos on a pale blue dot, orbiting an average star in an unremarkable galaxy. The big question that has haunted humanity since we first looked up at the night ...

Peering at distant planets is a tricky business for astronomers. There's plenty that they can assume about planets based on what they look like from afar, but it's still largely a guessing game. If a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Imagine stepping outside on a clear day and looking up at the sun. However, that isn't our sun; ...

An exoplanet couldn't get any closer, and now it looks like there could be a pair just around the cosmic corner. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy ...

Andrew Zic received support from an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, and as a Graduate Student with CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science. Andrew is now a Research Plus ...