Some astronomers have made it their life’s work to find “Earth 2.0,” a rocky planet orbiting a star just like our own Sun. It ...

Within a few dozen light years of the Sun, the sky is crowded with stars that could, in principle, host living worlds. I want ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting the closest solo star to the solar system, known as Barnard's star. The newly discovered exoplanet has around half the mass of Venus, which classifies it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Just six light-years from the solar system — in cosmic terms ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...