Barnard's Star, Orbit and planets

ESA/NASA Our nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, is moving towards us at a slow and steady pace. In about 3,000 years, the triple star system will be at its closest point to Earth ...
Very, very big indeed. Even the fastest spaceship we have today would take thousands of years even to reach our nearest star, let alone other worlds and galaxies. Article continues below Science ...
There’s an old riddle about the closest star to Earth. It’s not Sirius or Alpha Centauri (or Proxima Centauri, either). Our Sun is the closest star, of course. So near, it doesn’t quite seem ...
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.