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 ...

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

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

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

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

Scientists have discovered four planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the closest solitary star to Earth, located 5.96 light-years away. "It's a really exciting find—Barnard's Star is our cosmic neighbor, ...

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

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

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

Barnard's star is the second closest neighbour to our Sun and the closest single star with a planetary system. Only the star Proxima Centauri with two planets is closer to us, but it is part of a ...