A team of physicists has outlined a possible way of sending probes deep into interstellar space within a reasonable timescale ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?

The closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri (PC), is still about 8000 times further away from us than Pluto. Propelling a ...

In 2016, astronomers found a planet orbiting the nearest star to Earth in this system, called Proxima Centauri. Graphic representation of the relative distances between the nearest stars and the Sun.

But the closest one, known as Proxima b, looks to be less hospitable for life. Found in 2016, it orbits the star Proxima Centauri, which is known to be a rather active "red dwarf" star.

Astronomers have discovered planets covered in ice from pole to pole and planets so close to their star that they're baked to a crisp, with no atmosphere to speak of. Proxima Centauri, a star just ...

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 ...

Following her critically acclaimed turn as legendary opera singer Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín's "Maria," Angelina Jolie will return to Paris to star in Alice Winocour‘s next directorial effort.