The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...
Barnard’s Star has fascinated astronomers for decades. At just six light-years away, it is the second-closest single star to ...
Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf too faint to see without a telescope, hosts four newly discovered planets detected by instruments on large telescopes. The planets' gravitational pull causes the star to ...
"It’s a really exciting find — Barnard’s Star is our cosmic neighbor, and yet we know so little about it," Ritvik Basant, an ...
Basant's team, which also includes a researcher from Heidelberg University, found the exoplanets using the 8-meter Gemini ...
NASA and SpaceX are postponing a mission to swap astronauts stuck on the ISS due to rocket issues. Also, NASA must soon ...
WASHINGTON >> Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star - one of our closest ...