Proxima Centauri's small size and strong magnetic ... the star's so-called flare frequency distribution in order to map out the number of flares as a function of their energy.

The European Southern Observatory just announced the most exciting exoplanet discovery to date: An Earth-sized planet located just 4.25 light-years away in orbit around the star Proxima Centauri.

In 2016, researchers at Queen Mary discovered an exoplanet, Proxima b, orbiting our nearest star, Proxima Centauri. An exoplanet is a planet outside our own solar system. This is the closest such ...