A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

With the new findings, astronomers now know that there are rocky planets orbiting in the Alpha Centauri and Barnard’s star systems, though none in the habitable zone. Two exoplanets have been ...

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.

Explore Earth and its relationships with a plethora of planets, stars and galaxies in its cosmic family, Laniakea, the ...

Located 5.97 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth-closest star to our solar system, following the three stars of the Alpha Centauri system. (Five potential planets have also been detected ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...