Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us. The planets newly discovered around Barnard’s Star are much too faint to be seen directly, so how were they found? The ...

Researchers have discovered four Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star using advanced telescopes. These planets ...

In a new, groundbreaking discovery that has captivated the astronomy community, scientists have confirmed the presence of not one, but four small plan ...

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 ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. Now, four small planets have ...

the nearest single star system to Earth. The four planets are classified as sub-Earths because each one is about 19% to 34% the mass of Earth, according to new research. “It’s a really ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...