Etienne Klein, a French physicist, recently posted a picture of a Chorizo and claimed it to be Proxima Centauri. He is now under the scanne...

According to the study, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, life already has survived this kind of ...

The findings, published in the journal Nature, show the planet lies at a distant region from the star known as the 'snow line'.

Washington, Dec 20 (IANS) To look for signs of life beyond our solar system, the US space agency could send a spacecraft to the nearby Alph...

New York, Dec 19 (IANS) Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to the Earth, may be home to some small, Earth-like planets which have been...

This Earth-sized world, named Ross 128 b, is likely to have a surface temperature that may also be close to that of the Earth.

Washington, Nov 4 (IANS) Astronomers at Chile's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory have discovered cold dust a...

The lack of atmosphere leaves the surface exposed to harmful stellar radiation, reducing the planet's potential for habitability.

Washington, Aug 1 (IANS) Dampening hopes of finding alien life on the closest exoplanet ever discovered, a new NASA study says that the atm...

Mumbai, July 19 (IANS) Three space-based observatories Astrosat, Chandra, Hubble Space Telescope and a ground-based observatory HARPS have ...

The planet, discovered last August and rather unimaginatively named Proxima B — we would have named it Paanipuri, if we had a stake in its ...

The planet Proxima B was discovered in August last year, and is thought to be of similar size to Earth, creating the possibility that it co...

London, May 16 (IANS) The Earth-sized exoplanet Proxima b which orbits in the habitable zone around Proxima Centauri, our closest neighbour...

Washington, Feb 9 (IANS) A recently discovered Earth-sized planet, dubbed Proxima b, which orbits within the "habitable zone" of the red dw...

The search for life beyond Earth starts in habitable zones, the regions around stars where conditions could potentially allow liquid water ...

Astronomers believe they have found the oldest known planet-forming disk -- a 45-million-year-old ring of gas and dust that orbits around a...

An international team of astronomers found clear evidence of the planet about four light years away, orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest...