Barnard’s Star is a dim, reddish ball of gas just six light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. It is the nearest stand-alone star to our sun, but with only one-fifth the mass ...

The Barnard’s Star system. The previously discovered planet, Barnard b, is likely a rocky planet with roughly 30 percent Earth’s mass and an orbital period (or “year”) equal to ...

But that wasn't the first time the star had tricked astronomers into thinking it had planets. Astronomer Peter van de Kamp thought he had discovered two gas giant planets around Barnard’s star ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 light-years from Earth. CNN values your feedback 1.

The small separations between the planets around Barnard's Star also bring to mind another system of worlds around a red dwarf, TRAPPIST-1, where seven planets are packed within 5.75 million miles ...

Barnard b [2] is 20 times closer to Barnard’s star than the planet Mercury is to the sun. It has a surface temperature around 257° Fahrenheit and a full year lasts a little over three days here ...

A red dwarf star known as Barnard’s star, which lies a mere six light-years from our solar system, has at least one — and possibly a handful — of small rocky planets orbiting it, a new study ...

The Barnard's Star system. The previously discovered planet, Barnard b, is likely a rocky planet with roughly 30 percent Earth's mass and an orbital period (or "year") equal to approximately 3.15 ...

This rocky planet, discovered with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, is smaller than Earth, and flies around its tiny cool star every three days. Barnard's star is ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 light-years from Earth. CNN values your feedback 1.

Barnard's star is six light-years away from us, ... Astronomer Peter van de Kamp thought he had discovered two gas giant planets around Barnard’s star, the first as long ago as the 1960s.