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

"It’s a really exciting find — Barnard’s Star is our cosmic neighbor, and yet we know so little about it," Ritvik Basant, an ...

Star is a small, dim red dwarf star located in the constellation Ophiuchus. It’s distance was first measured by the ...

Astronomers have found four small planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the second-closest star system to Earth. These planets are ...

An artist’s conception of the view from one of the four planets orbiting Barnard’s Star. Illustration by R. Proctor/J. Pollard/NOIRLab.

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. The four planets, each only about 20 ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.

Using in part the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S.

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. The four planets, each onl ...