Guillem Anglada-Escudé – Astronomy Now

Potentially-habitable planet discovered around nearest star Proxima Centauri

24 August 2016 Keith Cooper

A planet with at least 1.3 times the mass of Earth has been discovered orbiting within the habitable zone of the nearest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri, which is just 4.2 light years away.

Follow a live Proxima Centauri exoplanet hunt with the Pale Red Dot campaign

15 January 2016 Astronomy Now

Pale Red Dot is an international search for an Earth-like exoplanet around the closest star to us, Proxima Centauri. It will be one of the few outreach campaigns allowing the general public to witness the scientific process of data acquisition in modern observatories via blog posts and social media updates. The Pale Red Dot campaign will run from January to April 2016.

Reanalysis of data suggests ‘habitable’ planet GJ 581d really could exist

9 March 2015 Astronomy Now

A report published in Science has dismissed claims made last year that the first super-Earth planet discovered in the habitable zone of a distant star was actually just noise in the data caused by starspots masquerading as planets.