Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

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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 ...

For a century, astronomers have been studying Barnard’s Star in the hope of finding planets around it. Excited scientists have found three more planets around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. Astronomers have revealed new evidence ...

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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), ...