Does Proxima Centauri have planetary bodies around it?

 

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We know of one: Proxima Centauri b.

Astronomers using telescopes from the European Southern Observatory have found the planet in 2016. The planet orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. This rocky world is a little more massive than the Earth and is the closest exoplanet to us — and it may also be the closest possible abode for life outside the Solar System. A paper describing this milestone finding will be published in the journal Nature on 25 August 2016.