The task of finding planets by this method starts with building highly sensitive spectrograph instruments. They are mounted ...

"It’s a really exciting find — Barnard’s Star is our cosmic neighbor, and yet we know so little about it," Ritvik Basant, an ...

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

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

Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf too faint to see without a telescope, hosts four newly discovered planets detected by instruments on large telescopes. The planets' gravitational pull causes the star to ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.