Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

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A total of four small, rocky exoplanets were found circling Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf with a mass about one-sixth […] ...

Originally expected to spend just eight days in orbit, the duo ultimately stayed 286 days — or more than nine months.

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star – one of our closest stellar neighbors – though they concluded that all of them are too hot to harbor life, much ...

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 ...