Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, is the brightest star in the sky. It’s twice as massive as the Sun. Canopus, the ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us. The planets newly discovered around Barnard’s ...

It’s the closest single-star system to Earth, unlike Proxima Centauri, which is part of a three-star system. This makes Barnard’s Star a prime candidate for studying planets in a system ...

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

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 ...

“Because of this, these sub-Earth size planets probably don’t ... Now, astronomers know that planets orbit the two closest star systems to our solar system. Barnard’s Star has served as ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 light-years from Earth, putting them in contention as targets of missions for future human generations.

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs.Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get ...