Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star — one of our closest stellar neighbors — ...

The ELT could identify biosignatures on planets in our solar system as well as orbiting Proxima Centauri within hours.

Fool’s Day is a television minefield which always involves a scan of the schedule to try to find the tiresome and obvious wind-up show. No problem, this year, though, I thought. There it ...

Using ALMA, astronomers discovered that Proxima Centauri produces frequent, high-energy millimeter-wavelength flares that could significantly alter or strip the atmospheres of its habitable-zone ...

The upcoming launch of the fittingly named Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in Chile is set to transform the way we search for life beyond Earth. With its immense power, the ELT could offer a faster ...

Let's celebrate April first as "Healthy Skepticism Day", especially with fantastical astronomy stories and images online ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

The study sheds light on Proxima Centauri’s unusually robust magnetic field, which fuels its flaring activity. As its ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...