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 ...

An artist's impression of a flare from Proxima Centauri, modeled after the loops of glowing hot gas seen in the largest solar flares. Exoplanet Proxima b is shown in the foreground. Proxima b orbits ...

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 ...

The closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri (PC), is still about 8000 times further away from us than Pluto. Propelling a probe to PC will require a much higher cruising speed than we can currently ...

Washington, DC--A team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Meredith MacGregor and Alycia Weinberger detected a massive stellar flare--an energetic explosion of radiation--from the closest star to our own ...

A 36-mile-long starship designed to carry 1,000 humans on a one-way trip to the nearest known exoplanet has won a major interstellar design competition, raising hard questions about what it would ...

The closest planet to Earth outside of our solar system might not be a place you'd want to visit. Researchers have found that the planet — called Proxima b — was likely bathed in radiation after its ...