Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. Now, four small planets have ...
When the University of Oregon announced last summer that it was joining the Big Ten conference, men’s basketball coach Dana ...
Illustration of Barnard's Star as seen from the surface of one of its planets. (Credit: International Gemini ...
Barnard’s Star has fascinated astronomers for decades. At just six light-years away, it is the second-closest single star to ...
Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star, one of our closest stellar neighbours.
The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.
WASHINGTON >> Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star - one of our closest ...
Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...
"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...
Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...
The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...