But what is the science behind extraterrestrial life? Is it possible that humans will ever experience "first contact" with an ...

Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms ...

It’s never aliens—until it is. On December 18th news leaked in the British newspaper the Guardian of a mysterious signal coming from the closest star to our own, Proxima Centauri, a star too ...

in a triple-star system known as Alpha Centauri. Since its discovery in 1915, Proxima has regularly appeared in science-fiction tales of interstellar arks and alien empires. When the field of SETI ...

The flare, which was around 100 times more powerful than any experienced in our solar system, could change the way scientists think about solar radiation and alien life. Proxima Centauri is a red ...

The signal appeared from a region around Proxima Centauri, a star nearly 4.2 light ... graphs represent the potential signals from an alien civilization, BLC-1, and show characteristics consistent ...

Breakthrough Listen, a decade-long search for alien broadcasts from the nearest million stars, was using Australia’s Parkes Observatory to study Proxima Centauri when the team detected the ...

Proxima Centauri, according to a report in The Guardian on 18 December. Any purported discovery of aliens always has to be taken with scepticism. That is especially true in cases where a signal ...

But it's not impossible for alien life to exist there. "If there was life on the planet nearest to Proxima Centauri, it would have to look very different than anything on Earth," MacGregor said in ...