Astronomers Have Found Potential Life-Supporting Conditions on The Nearest Exoplanet

By Matt Williams In August of 2016, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced the discovery of an exoplanet in the neighboring system of Proxima Centauri. The news was greeted with considerable excitement, as this was the closest rocky planet to our Solar System that also orbited within its star’s habitable zone. Since then, multiple …