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

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

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

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 ...

The recent findings up the number of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star from one to at least three, possibly four, as ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

Israeli astronomers report the detection of a new Jupiter-like exoplanet using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS). The newfound alien world orbits a nearby M-dwarf star ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

An illustration of one of Barnard’s Star's four exoplanets. © Illustration by International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor/J. Pollard Astronomers ...

This is because, he said, Barnard's Star is essentially our cosmic neighbor, yet we don't know very much about it. There have been many claims of exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star over the years ...