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

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

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the Solar System and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

Planet Labs stock cratered on a poor earnings report Friday. A new contract with the European Space Agency that was announced today is helping to erase Friday's losses. Planet Labs did not ...

Pollard A quartet of Earth-like worlds, each about 20% to 30% the size of our planet ... (Five potential planets have also ...

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Known as planet-forming disks, they are believed to be a short-lived feature around most, if not all, young stars, providing the raw materials for planets to form.

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

Asteroid 2014 TN17, measuring 540 feet wide, will safely pass Earth on March 26, 2025, despite being classified as ...