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

At just six light-years from Earth, Barnard's star is close by and has long been of interest to researchers searching for ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered the existence of Barnard b, a new exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the second closest stellar ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet around Barnard’s star, one of the sun’s closest neighbours, but it is too hot for ...

"Barnard b is one of the lowest-mass exoplanets known and one of the few known with a mass less than that of Earth." ...

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have found the first exoplanet orbiting a single star. This ...

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

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 ...

Researchers spotted a small, rocky planet orbiting the red dwarf known as Barnard’s Star, which is about 6 light years away ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet, Barnard b, located just six light-years away. Classified as a 'sub-Earth,' it ...