"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

Pollard A quartet of Earth-like worlds, each about 20% to 30% the size of our planet, circle one of our closest ... orbiting ...

Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...

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

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 ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Diminutive Barnard's Star is closer in size to Jupiter than to the sun ... planets tell us about planetary formation. They'll have formed in a protoplanetary disk of material that swirled around ...

The planets closely orbit Barnard’s Star, zipping around their stellar host in a matter of days, compared with the year it takes Earth to complete one orbit around the sun. The outermost planet ...

The orbit Venus takes around the sun results in an inferior conjunction as it transitions from appearing in the evening sky ...

Pollard A quartet of Earth-like worlds, each about 20% to 30% the size of our planet, circle one ... a red dwarf with a mass around one-sixth that of the sun. At 5.97 light-years from Earth ...