Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...

Barnard’s Star has fascinated astronomers for decades. At just six light-years away, it is the second-closest single star to ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the ...

Using in part the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S.

Astronomers have discovered four small planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the second-closest star system to Earth, using ...

Whenever planets are visible in the night sky, they always appear roughly along the same line. This path, known as the ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

Astronomers have discovered not one, but four tiny planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our cosmic neighbor. These planets, each about a fifth the mass of Earth, whip around their host star in just ...

NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. The four planets, each onl ...

Small planets have low eccentricities, and large planets have large eccentricities," Gilbert explained. The coincidence of trends in abundance, metallicity and eccentricity points to two distinct ...