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

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to Earth, a pair of telescopes has revealed multiple rocky worlds around it ...

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

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered four planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the closest solitary star to Earth, located 5.96 light-years ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

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

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

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

The recent findings up the number of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star from one to at least three, possibly four, as ...