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Astronomy

Why can’t I see red dwarf stars with the naked eye?

The nearest star to our Sun is a red dwarf but why is it a struggle to see it?

Deep Space

Life looks ‘more likely’ around Alpha Centauri

Observations of X-ray emissions around the four-light-year-distant star system shows encouraging signs for habitability of any orbiting exoplanets

Deep Space

Lethal stellar flares bombard Earth’s closest exoplanet

In early 2017, Proxima Centauri exhibited a tremendous stellar flare that could have damaged our closest exoplanet, Proxima b

Deep Space

Astronomers discover belt of dust surrounding nearest star

Cold dust has been found to surround our neighbouring star, Proxima Centauri – a feature that resembles our Solar System’s Kuiper Belt

News

Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner’s hunt for life on nearest super-Earth begins

Breakthrough Listen, the 10-year, $100-million astronomical search for intelligent life beyond our planet, has announced its first observations using CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope

News

FREE PREVIEW: All About Space issue 56

The team behind the Rosetta mission report exclusively for All About Space on how the comet chaser has solved the mystery of the Solar System

News

Super-Earth found in habitable zone of nearest star

The new world, around Proxima Centauri, has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface

Deep Space

By the numbers: Proxima Centauri

Read on for some fast facts about our Sun’s closest star

Deep Space

What do we know about the Oort Cloud?

It holds dwarf planets and it’s poisonous – that’s just two facts about this comet-laden object

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