The radio wave signal was initially detected in April 2019 from the Australia-based Parkes Telescope at a frequency of 982 MHz. The signal appeared from a region around Proxima Centauri ...

NASA’s New Horizons probe has measured the distance to nearby stars using a technique that’s as old as the ancient mariners, but from a vantage point those ...

The telescope design was a global effort ... That’s why the light we see from Proxima Centauri, the closest star to us aside ...

The telescope is one of only a few able to directly ... As it happens, there’s a rocky planet, called Proxima Centauri b, orbiting in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf that ...

A new study by DTU Space researchers has revealed a neutron star that rotates around its axis at an extremely high speed. It ...

Using facilities operated by ESO (the European Southern Observatory) and other telescopes, the research, which is published in the journal Nature, reveals a world with a similar mass to Earth orbiting ...

Astronomers know it exists because they've seen its gravity tug on and "wiggle" Proxima Centauri, the red dwarf star that it orbits. But no telescopes in space or on the ground, nor any in serious ...

Insights from a new study suggest that the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT ... including candidates like Proxima Centauri b, with the potential to harbour life. Exoplanetary research ...

The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto ... That's because even the closest exoplanet to the solar system, Proxima Centauri b, is a whopping four light-years away.

The original signal found by Shane Smith [an intern] is not obviously detected when the telescope is pointed away from Proxima Centauri,' Dr Sofia Sheikh, a radio astronomer and astrobiologist ...

New research in our Milky Way has revealed a neutron star that rotates around its axis at an extremely high speed. It spins 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest-spinning objects ever ...