Orbiting Barnard's star, the nearest solo star to Earth, the world is too hot to be habitable—a scorching 257 degrees ...

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope have confirmed the existence of at least one ...

Taya and his colleagues have conducted a theoretical analysis indicating that heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies ...

Thanks to detailed new imagery from Hubble, researchers have now determined that the oldest and most distant 'fast radio ...

Scientists find astonishing planet near to Earth - Planet is at least half as massive as Venus – and could be one of many, ...

Barnard's star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun. At about 6 ...

The exoplanet was discovered while searching for a hypothesized earth-like planet believed to be three times larger than ...

Astronomers using the ESO's VLT say they have spotted a planet orbiting our solar system's closest single star, a.k.a. Barnard's star.

Barnard's Star is about six light-years away, just a bit farther than Alpha Centauri but in a different direction. We know ...

Astronomers have discovered a new planet orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our sun. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile, scientists ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

How close are Earth-sized exoplanets to Earth? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to ...