"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...

Two space missions reached their conclusion: one with a splashdown, the other with a quiet lunar death. And thrilling new ...

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

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

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

(Five potential planets have also been detected around the stars of Alpha Centauri, though not all of them have been ...

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

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

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

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

Astronomers have discovered new evidence of small planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the closest single star system to Earth.