The quartet of planets — named b, c, d and e — are some of the smallest rocky worlds ever detected. NASA says each has a mass ...

Barnard’s Star is located just 6 light-years away from us. It is the closest single star to the Sun and the fourth closest ...

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 ...

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

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

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s ...

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 ...

For starters, astronomers now know that four planets orbit Barnard’s Star — one of our closest cosmic neighbors, according to the researchers behind a new study. Watch an animation of the ...

Scientists have discovered four tiny planets circling our second-closest star system, Barnard’s Star. The reddish ball of gas is only six light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus.

Scientists have confirmed the existence of four small, rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star — the second closest star system to Earth — using a specialized instrument on the mighty Gemini ...