Astronomers haven’t found planets around our Sun’s nearest neighbor, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. But there’s good reason to keep looking. Most exoplanets orbit red dwarfs — the most ...

In the case of the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, researchers believe that, like many of its type, the star likely produces regular solar flares and CMEs. Unless Proxima Centauri b managed to form a ...

An artist’s conception shows Proxima Centauri b orbiting its parent star, a red dwarf, with the two other stars of the Alpha Centauri system in the far background. (Credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a third planet circling Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star that lies a mere 4.2 light-years from our solar system. The candidate world, known as Proxima d ...

At first glance, Proxima Centauri seems nothing like our Sun. It's a small, cool, red dwarf star only one-tenth as massive and one-thousandth as luminous as the Sun. However, new research shows ...

Defying long-held assumptions that Proxima Centauri — the nearest star to our Sun — has no Sun-like features, new research shows that the red dwarf star actually has Sun-like stellar activity ...

A group of dozens of astronomers have found evidence of a small, rocky, and potentially watery world lurking around the closest star to the sun. The planet, called Proxima b, is slightly larger ...

The closest star to us, Proxima Centauri, and the planet that orbits it, Proxima b, are just 4.2 light-years away. The cool and faint red dwarf star is part of the Alpha Centauri system along with ...

Despite its favored location Proxima b may not be so habitable after all. Red dwarf stars like Proxima Centauri often unleash huge flares that can strip away a nearby planet's atmosphere ...

Its name means "nearest to Centaurus" in Latin. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star with a mass of around 12.5% of the sun and a diameter of about 14% of our star's. However, Proxima Centauri is ...

Proxima Centauri is a low-mass red dwarf star, known as an M-class dwarf, that happens to be close to the bright binary star Alpha Centauri AB, which outshines its cool stepbrother, so to speak.