Up Next
Back to Show
PBS Space Time
Is the Proxima System Our Best Hope For Another Earth?
Season 8
Episode 8
At just four light years away, Proxima Centauri is our closest solar neighbor. The recent discovery of the new exoplanet Proxima D, has reopened the discussion of whether the proxima system is our best chance at reaching another Earth. How did we discover Proxima D? How do we know what the conditions are on planets so far away? Watch the episode to learn more.
Support Provided By
21:17
We’ve found lots of “habitable” worlds but we don’t know what factors are needed for life.
19:52
Antimatter drives sound like science fiction, but they may not be as far as you think.
23:22
Does quantum mechanics allow the future to retroactively influence the past or not?
19:14
Life on mars could result in humanity’s destruction via Fermi Paradox.
19:01
How to build a particle collider the size of the solar system.
12:39
One of the most important reasons we go to space is to know our own planet better.
16:18
Is there evidence for the existence of an enormous number of other universes?
18:56
It may be that our very DNA inherited its twist from the underlying handedness of reality.
17:21
Did God have any choice in creating the world? So asked Albert Einstein
18:19
What if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails?