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 ...

Barnard’s Star is notorious among astronomers for a history of false planet detections but it appears the latest discovery – ...

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 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 ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star system to Earth. The four planets are ...

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.

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

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 ...

A combination of the world's most powerful telescopes detected the planets. Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four ...