Barnard’s Star is located just 6 light-years away from us. It is the closest single star to the Sun and the fourth closest ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Diminutive Barnard's Star is closer in size to Jupiter than to the sun. Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us. The planets newly discovered around Barnard's Star ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an inferior conjunction.

The planets closely orbit Barnard’s Star, zipping around their stellar host in a matter of days, compared with the year it takes Earth to complete one orbit around the sun. The outermost planet ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

Fellipe Abreu/Getty Images The planets are 20% to 30% the mass of Earth and make a full orbit around the sun in days, according to the paper. They are likely rocky planets, rather than gas.