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

Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting the closest solo star to Earth. The solo star, which is known as Barnard’s star ...

Astronomers using the ESO's VLT say they have spotted a planet orbiting our solar system's closest single star, a.k.a. Barnard's star.

Barnard's Star is about six light-years away, just a bit farther than Alpha Centauri but in a different direction. We know ...

Astronomers have discovered a new planet orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our sun. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile, scientists ...

A planet has been discovered orbiting the closest single star to our Sun. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

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

How close are Earth-sized exoplanets to Earth? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to ...

An international team of scientists using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has discovered an exoplanet orbiting ...

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

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