New observations of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Solar System, located at a distance of 4.2 light years, have made it possible to reveal the presence of a candidate low-mass planet orbiting the star at a distance 1.5 times greater than that separating the Earth from the Sun. The discovery, published in the … Continue reading The Second Exoplanet in the Proxima Centauri Planetary System