New research suggests that life could have the time and energy to arise on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking ...

The vernal equinox arrives on Thursday, marking the start of the spring season for the Northern Hemisphere and the fall in ...

What is the best time to start the day in view of the variation in when the sun rises? This is the problem analyzed by Jorge ...

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

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

For years, astronomers have searched the cosmos for planets capable of supporting life. Most efforts focus on the "habitable zone," the region around a star where a planet could have liquid water. But ...

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

Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard's Star. As detailed in a new paper published ...

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 ...

Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...