Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting ...

The world—which orbits Barnard's Star, just six light-years from us—has a year that lasts barely three Earth days.

The single nearest star to the Sun—which is to say, the closest star moving independent from a star system—has at least one ...

Barnard’s star is a red dwarf about six light-years away from our sun and six light-years away from Earth. It is considered ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

Astronomers found a new exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s Star. The planet, Barnard b, completes its orbit in 3.15 days.

Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting the closest solo star to Earth. The solo star, which is known as Barnard’s star ...

This rocky planet, discovered with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, is smaller than Earth, ...

Barnard's star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun. At about 6 ...

Scientists discovered that Barnard’s Star wobbles a full 20 inches (50 cm) per second — five times Earth’s effect on the Sun ...

For decades, astronomers have seen the "before" and "after" of this process — when a planet is orbiting very close to its ...

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet about half the size of Venus orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our ...