WE'RE only six weeks into 2022 and Nasa is already shedding light on distant and mysterious worlds.
The US space agency has discovered 10 exoplanets since the turn of the year – and shows no sign of slowing down soon.
Exoplanets are planets outside of our Solar System. Thousands have been discovered since the 1980s.
The discovery of a new planet orbiting the closest star to the sun
A team of astronomers has found evidence of another planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system. Proxima Centauri is 4 light years away. This candidate planet is the third discovered in this planetary system and the lightest discovered to date orbiting this star.
"This discovery shows that our closest star appears to have a number of interesting planets in its orbit, within the reach of further studies and future exploration," explains João Faria, a researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, in Portugal, and the leader of the study
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