A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri

Guillem Anglada Escudé

Guillem Anglada-Escudé (born in Ullastrell, Barcelona in 1979), is a Spanish astronomer.

Guillem Anglada Escudé

Guillem Anglada Escudé (born in Ullastrell, Barcelona in 1979), is a Spanish astronomer.

Alfa Centauri

Biosignature

A biosignature (sometimes called chemical fossil or molecular fossil) is any substance – such as an element, isotope, or molecule  – or phenomenon that provides…

Alpha Centauri

Alpha Centauri (Latinized from α Centauri, abbreviated Alpha Cen or α Cen) is the closest star system to the Solar System at from the Sun.

GJ 3323 b

GJ 3323 b es un planeta extrasolar que orbita dentro de la zona habitable de la estrella enana roja denominada GJ 3323 aproximadamente a 17.5 años luz (53,66 pársecs o 1,6…

High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher

The High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) is a high-precision echelle planet finding spectrograph installed in 2002 on the ESO's 3.6m telescope at La…

List of potentially habitable exoplanets

This is a list of potentially habitable exoplanets and possible exoplanets. The list is based on estimates of habitability by the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog (HEC), and…

Centaurus

Circumstellar habitable zone

In astronomy and astrobiology, the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ), or simply the habitable zone, is the range of orbits around a star within which a planetary…

Milky Way

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky…

Proxima Centauri b

}} Proxima Centauri b (also called Proxima b or Alpha Centauri Cb) is an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, which is the…

Próxima Centauri

Proxima Centauri b

Proxima Centauri b (mys nimell Proxima b) on eksoplaneetta, joka kiert Proxima Centauria.

Earth Proxima

Earth Proxima refers the closest confirmed exoplanet to Earth that exhibits similar conditions to our planet, therefore maximizing its chances of being habitable to…

Proxima Centauri

Proxima Centauri is a small, low-mass star located away from the Sun in the southern constellation of Centaurus.

List of extrasolar candidates for liquid water

Most known extrasolar planetary systems appear to have very different compositions from the Solar System, though there is probably sample bias arising from the detection…

Exoplanet

There are many methods of detecting exoplanets. Transit photometry and Doppler spectroscopy have found the most, but these methods suffer from a clear observational bias…

Binary mass function

In astronomy, the binary mass function or simply mass function is a function that constrains the mass of the unseen component (typically a star or exoplanet) in a single-l…

List of nearest terrestrial exoplanet candidates

This list of nearest space terrestrial exoplanets candidates contains possible terrestrial ("rocky") exoplanets space at a distance of up to 50 light-years from the…

List of nearest exoplanets

There are known exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system that orbit a star, as of ; only a small fraction of these are located in the vicinity of the Solar System.

Próxima Centauri b

Solar System

The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system comprising the Sun and the objects that orbit it, either directly or indirectly.