Barnard’s Star is located just 6 light-years away from us. It is the closest single star to the Sun and the fourth closest star overall, after the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system. Just a few ...

The next closest star, at about 6 light-years away in Ophiuchus, is Barnard’s Star. The star is famous not so much for its composition — it’s a rather small and humdrum red dwarf, like the vast ...

How close to Earth could we find the next Earth-like exoplanet? This is what two papers accepted in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of more than two dozen researchers ...

This artist's impression shows Barnard b, a sub-Earth-mass planet that was discovered orbiting Barnard's star. Its signal was detected with the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), ...

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

There may be a habitable world at the Sun's closest solar twin. In the complex space inhabited by the Alpha Centauri triple star system, JWST has just discerned the presence of a giant exoplanet ...

Recently, scientists discovered a number of new comets, two of which will be passing by Earth in October. Here's everything ...

Without our Sun, we wouldn't have life as we know it on Earth. Here's how the Sun works for us: Our Sun is the closest star to us, even though it is 93 million miles away. Like all stars, it is a hot, ...

These hot August nights can be great for stargazing. Here’s a look at what’s going on above us right now and later in the month. Lawrence Livermore National Lab enters a different kind of space race ...