The closest star to the Sun hosts a planet only a little more massive than Earth, orbiting at a distance where temperatures could in principle allow liquid water on its surface. Proxima Centauri b ...
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 ...
Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple system closest to our own sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the ...
Learn more about interstellar travel and what it would look like to travel to Proxima Centauri.