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

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

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

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

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

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

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

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

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

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

Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...