More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

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

China has put forth a proposal to construct a large radio telescope array on the far side of the moon. For the last few years ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

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 ...