There’s a powerful scene in the movie “Contact” (one of my favs) where lead character Ellie Arroway is sitting among…
From its current position in the Kuiper Belt, the New Horizons spacecraft recently conducted a parallax experiment that is not…
Our closest stellar neighbour is Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf star about 4.2 light years away from us. It's…
There is an Earth-sized planet only four light years from Earth. Whether it has life is yet to be known.
A new study by a team using data from the Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument, may have caught a direct…
A new study has shown how gas giants (like Proxima c) can exist around Red Dwarf suns, the most common…
Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to us, at 4.37 light-years (about 25 trillion miles) away. In 2016, astronomers…
A new study by a team from the Carl Sagan institutes shows how life could survive the harsh radiation on…
A new NASA-led study shows that Proxima b could support the existence of an ocean on its dayside, which means…
Using over a decade of data collected by the Chandra X-ray observatory, a new study indicates that the Alpha Centauri…