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

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

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

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

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

The orbit Venus takes around the sun results in an inferior conjunction as it transitions from appearing in the evening sky to the morning sky.

Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

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.

"If a planet orbits too close to its star, any water would evaporate. If it's too far, it would freeze. It turns out, all four planets orbiting Barnard's star are too close to their host ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...