Researchers identified the exoplanet in the data of NASA's now-defunct Kepler space telescope
exoplanet
The exoplanet orbits "a nearby visual-binary M dwarf" star
“Imagine if Earth were much, much closer to the Sun”
While this is a tantalizing study, more data would be needed to verify the interpretation as an extragalactic exoplanet
There's considerable debate about the true habitability of Proxima b
The exoplanet, called K2-315b, orbits a dwarf star that lies 186 light-years from Earth
AU Mic is a young star between 20 and 30 million years old
Astronomers claim to have snapped an image of Proxima c, an exoplanet circling our nearest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri
An exoplanet is a planet that's outside of our solar system.
The new planet joins other Earth-sized planets, including several in the TRAPPIST-1 system & other worlds discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope