More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

After many previous claims and false alarms, astronomers can finally confirm the existence of at least four planets less ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

Scientists have discovered four tiny planets circling our second-closest star system, Barnard’s Star. The reddish ball of gas is only six light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus.

"It’s a really exciting find — Barnard’s Star is our cosmic neighbor, and yet we know so little about it," Ritvik Basant, an ...

The recent findings up the number of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star from one to at least three, possibly four, as ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...