An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

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

Barnard’s Star is a dim, reddish ball of gas just six light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. It is the nearest stand-alone star to our sun, but with only one-fifth the mass ...

Discovered in 1916 by American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard, Barnard’s Star is a small and slow-burning red dwarf classified by astronomers as an M-type star.

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

Barnard b [2] is 20 times closer to Barnard’s star than the planet Mercury is to the sun. It has a surface temperature around 257° Fahrenheit and a full year lasts a little over three days here ...

There have been many claims of exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star over the years, dating all the way back to the 1960s. Barnard's Star is a red dwarf, also known as an M-dwarf, and is noticeable ...

Barnard's star is only six light-years away from the sun. Credit: IEEC / Science-Wave – Guillem Ramisa infographic. The bad news: Even if the star were about 2,500 degrees cooler than the sun ...

The Barnard’s Star system. The previously discovered planet, Barnard b, is likely a rocky planet with roughly 30 percent Earth’s mass and an orbital period (or “year”) equal to ...

Astronomers detect a planet near Barnard's star, which is relatively close to Earth Only six light-years from the Sun, Barnard b is boiling hot, but the new planet hints at other nearby worlds ...

Barnard's star is six light-years away from us, in the constellation Ophiuchus. The only closer stars are the trio that make up the Alpha Centauri system. Anyone have déjà vu?