The map consists of 13 years of work totaling 200,000 images, thanks to the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope.

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting ...

Barnard's star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun. At about 6 ...

The single nearest star to the Sun—which is to say, the closest star moving independent from a star system—has at least one ...

This rocky planet, discovered with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, is smaller than Earth, ...

The world—which orbits Barnard's Star, just six light-years from us—has a year that lasts barely three Earth days.

Barnard’s star is a red dwarf about six light-years away from our sun and six light-years away from Earth. It is considered ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet around Barnard’s star, one of the sun’s closest neighbours, but it is too hot for ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

The exoplanet was discovered while searching for a hypothesized earth-like planet believed to be three times larger than ...

Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered an exoplanet named Barnard b, orbiting the nearest single star ...

The closest single star to our solar system reveals a planet with a three-day year.