Share this on WhatsApp Little is more enticing than the prospect of seeing alien worlds around other stars—and perhaps one day even closely studying their atmosphere and mapping their surface. Such observations are exceedingly difficult, of course. Although more than 4,000 exoplanets are now known, the vast majority of them are too distant and dim … Continue reading Astronomers May Have Captured the First Ever Image of Nearby Exoplanet Proxima C