Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

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

Scientists have just revealed an incredible "breakthrough" discovery of four Earth-like planets orbiting one of our closest ...

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

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 ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...