As it happens, there’s a rocky planet, called Proxima Centauri b, orbiting in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf that’s the nearest star to our own, about 4.2 light-years ...

With HWO, SETI could detect these emissions from as far as 5.7 light-years away, just beyond our closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri. Finally, as you get closer and closer to Earth, you would ...