Barnard b may have an unassuming name, but the not-so-distant exoplanet is attracting excited attention from scientists. Newly discovered by astronomers publishing for the journal Astronomy and ...

Scientists have confirmed the existence of an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to the sun. Scientists say they've finally found a world orbiting Barnard's star, the closest ...

The closest single star to Earth is home to at least one planet, and it’s a rocky little world not so different from ours. Astronomers spotted a small, rocky planet orbiting the red dwarf known as ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - 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 light years away, it is the closest single ...

Hiding just six light-years away from our solar system, an exoplanet has been revealed to be orbiting the closest single star to Earth. The world—dubbed Barnard b—is thought to have about half of the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting the closest solo star to the solar system, known as ...

One of the sun’s closest neighbours, Barnard’s star, appears to have at least one planet orbiting it, as well as another three possible planets that need further confirmation. Astronomers have been ...

How close are Earth-sized exoplanets to Earth? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as a large international team of researchers have announced the ...

This artist’s impression shows Barnard b, a sub-Earth-mass planet that was discovered orbiting Barnard’s star. Its signal was detected with the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), ...

This is not to say that Barnard b itself is a candidate for extraterrestrial life. It is one of the lowest mass exoplanets ever discovered, roughly half the size of Venus, and therefore qualifies as a ...