The nearest star to our Sun is a red dwarf but why is it a struggle to see it?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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By the numbers: Proxima Centauri
Read on for some fast facts about our Sun’s closest star
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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