NASA is plotting a new mission that could be the one to finally uncover alien life in the universe. Or, it may uncover a ...

Researchers studied the L 98-59 system and confirmed five rocky planets. One is in the habitable zone and may support liquid water.

An international team led by the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Montreal published the first results today from the NIRPS ...

A new milestone in space exploration was reached today with the publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics of the first ...

Join us on a journey to the Alpha Centauri system,the closest star system to Earth and one of the most promising locations in ...

Proxima Centauri, just 4.24 light-years from Earth, is the closest known star to our Sun. Though it’s the smallest member of ...

ATLANTA — Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark wondered Tuesday whether the automated ball-strike system would do well to provide a little grace, a half-inch ...

They did it by comparing the probe’s photos of Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 with measurements from the Gaia space telescope, which has produced the most detailed map of stars in our Milky Way.

There is no star that is actually just a parsec away. The closest to us is Proxima Centauri, which is just over 4 light-years away. Proxima is in a three-star system known as Alpha Centauri.

“Small, rocky planets in the so-called habitable zone – the area around a star where water could exist in liquid form – are potential candidates for habitable worlds,” said Dr. Andreas Quirrenbach, ...