A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our own and has it's own earth-sized planet, Proxima Centauri b. The planet was ...

At 5.97 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth-closest star to our solar system, after the three interconnected stars of ...

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

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.

The search continued, however, and Barnard’s Star has since been dubbed “the great white whale” for exoplanet seekers, as Paul Butler, an astronomer at Carnegie Science’s Earth and Planets ...

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

Scientists have discovered four new Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light-years away. Using advanced technology, these are ...

Located 5.97 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth-closest star to our solar system, following the three stars of the Alpha Centauri system. (Five potential planets have also been detected ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop.

The red dwarf star, about six light-years from Earth, hosts four close-in planets each about two to three times the mass of Mars, astronomers report in the March 20 Astrophysical Journal Letters.