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First identified in 1916 by astrophotographer Edward Emerson Barnard, Barnard’s Star has long intrigued scientists. This latest discovery sheds light on the tiny worlds circling it and raises hopes ...

The quartet of planets — named b, c, d and e — are some of the smallest rocky worlds ever detected. NASA says each has a mass ...

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

Barnard’s Star is notorious among astronomers for a history of false planet detections but it appears the latest discovery – ...

NEW YORK — A federal judge on Thursday ordered Columbia University and Barnard College to refrain from complying with a Republican-led House committee’s demand for student disciplinary records ...

Scientists have discovered four tiny planets circling our second-closest star system, Barnard’s Star. The reddish ball of gas is only six light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus.

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. Read the full story ...

An artist’s rendering of Barnard’s Star, as seen from one of the newly discovered exoplanets orbiting it International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 ...

Researchers have detected four small exoplanets orbiting closely around Barnard's Star. This illustration shows what the planetary system may look like from one of the rocky worlds. . | Credit ...

The nearest single star to the sun, Barnard’s star, has a brood of planets all its own. The red dwarf star, about six light-years from Earth, hosts four close-in planets each about two to three ...