A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

My science fiction novel “Proxima,” published in 2013, is about a habitable planet of the star Proxima Centauri, a “red dwarf,” small and dim, that is the nearest star of all to our sun.I ...

The star is named after the American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard, who measured its motion relative to the Sun back in 1916. Artist’s impression of Barnard b orbiting Barnard’s star.

Star wobbles. For a century, astronomers have been studying Barnard's Star in hopes of finding planets around it. First ...

If you want to study the stars, there’s no better place to start than close to home. After all, the nearest star is just 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away: the Sun.

While the Proxima Centauri system is the closest to our solar system at a distance of 4.25 light-years away, it comprises three stars circling one another, making Barnard’s Star the nearest ...

Alpha Centauri is a star system with components 4.2 to 4.4 light-years from Earth and comprises three stars. It is the closest star system to the solar system, and one of its stars is the nearest ...

Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole ripping a passing star to shreds. Not only was this closer to Earth than ever seen before, but its location and light emissions were unusual ...

If you want to study the stars, there’s no better place to start than close to home. After all, the nearest star is just 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away: the Sun. Its daily presence and ...