Proxima

As the tale begins, the Proxima is making an emergency diversion to avoid a black hole.

Icarus at the Edge of Time by Brian Greene: Book summary 2010

The starship Proxima is on a twenty-five-trillion mile journey.

Icarus at the Edge of Time by Brian Greene: Book summary 2010

“During the five-year trip from the planet htrae in Proxima Centauri, you’ll have ample time to agree on the optimum method,” instructed The Gink.

365 tomorrows » 2010 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

At certain distances, the cycle becomes totally unmanageable: Traveling on conventional fuel to Proxima Centauri, the next closet star after our sun, for example, would require a tank larger than the visible universe.

NASA's plans for manned expedition to Mars may include solar-powered spacecraft Brian Palmer 2011

Some stars, such as our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri at some 25.4 trillion miles away, are "variable" and release massive flares that make them 100 times brighter, in a few minutes time, which might bake growing things on any planets they possess.

Astronomers hunting alien Earths 2011

So I'm glad to see this piece in the New Scientist, "Dark Power: Grand designs for interstellar travel," in which mathematicians Louis Crane and Shawn Westmoreland at Kansas State University in Manhattan propose ways to shorten the trip to Proxima Centauri from 74,000 years to "just a few" years.

Archive 2009-12-01 Lou Anders 2009

Blake: Jon Huston's official answer: "That line is somewhere in orbit around Alpha Proxima."

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

At certain distances, the cycle becomes totally unmanageable: Traveling on conventional fuel to Proxima Centauri, the next closet star after our sun, for example, would require a tank larger than the visible universe.

NASA's plans for manned expedition to Mars may include solar-powered spacecraft Brian Palmer 2011

The fault in the cliff is a reminder that the earth is in slow, constant flux, inexorably shoving continental plates together, pulling them apart, making new oceans and enormous supercontinents, a vast new Pangaea Proxima predicted hundreds of millions of years from now, long after our species has exited the scene.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

The fault in the cliff is a reminder that the earth is in slow, constant flux, inexorably shoving continental plates together, pulling them apart, making new oceans and enormous supercontinents, a vast new Pangaea Proxima predicted hundreds of millions of years from now, long after our species has exited the scene.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011