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 ...

Researchers have discovered four Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star using advanced telescopes. These planets ...

A group of astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting the closest single star to Earth’s Sun. The earth-like planet has at least half the mass of Venus, and a year lasts only a little over ...

It's thought that Barnard's Star is tearing through space at around 500,000 km/h, making it the fastest-moving known object in the universe A "super-Earth" has been discovered orbiting the closest ...

It’s not easy to uncover exoplanets, largely lightless objects that either lurk in the dark void of space or are blown out by the light of a nearby star. But astronomers using the James Webb Space ...

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How close to Earth could we find the next Earth-like exoplanet? This is what two papers accepted in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of more than two dozen researchers ...

Observations with ground-based and space telescopes like Kepler and TESS have proven planets are extremely common. There's even a small, Earth-like planet right next door orbiting Proxima Centauri. We ...