A small star just over four light-years from Earth has just made a very big statement. In a groundbreaking new study, ...

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

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

Proxima Centauri's small size and strong magnetic field indicate that its entire internal structure is likely convective—unlike the sun, which has both convective and nonconvective layers.

Researchers have detected four small exoplanets orbiting closely around Barnard's Star. This illustration shows what the ...

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

The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.

This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...