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

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

Exciting new research suggests there are four miniature planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, each thought to be just 20 to 30% ...

Astronomers have made an exciting breakthrough by discovering four sub-Earth exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our closest ...

If you’re going to set a sci-fi movie on an alien planet, it’s a nice bonus if that planet actually exists. Or, at least, is ...

"With the current dataset, we can confidently rule out any planets more massive than 40 to 60 percent of Earth's mass near the inner and outer edges of the habitable zone," Basant told Space.com.

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...

Ready for a show? On the night of March 13 into the early hours of March 14, a total lunar eclipse will occur as the moon ...

Barnard's Star is the second-nearest star system to Earth, and four tiny planets have been discovered around it ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...