More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

Scientists have confirmed the existence of four small, rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star — the second closest star system ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) telescope will be actively looking for traces of life on Earth-like planets in other ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...