The Alpha Centauri star system, located just four light-years from Earth, might host a giant planet in its habitable zone. The observation of a Saturn-sized planet by the James Webb Telescope in ...

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 ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that not just one, but four tiny planets are circling around Barnard's Star, the ...

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Red dwarf stars make up the largest population of stars in the galaxy, but they hide in the shadows, too dim to be seen with the naked eye from Earth. Their limited radiance helps to extend their ...

Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B – they are now the “best known” stars. This has also allowed a unique and very detailed comparison between “real nature” and current stellar theory for solar-type stars ...

Traveling the vast distances between solar systems is well beyond existing technology. But a new ultra-thin lightsail designed with AI could make it possible to reach the nearest star within 20 years.

There's an exoplanet whipping around Barnard's star, and there may be up to three others yet to be detected. Reading time 2 minutes The single nearest star to the Sun—which is to say, the closest star ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of Proxima b, an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting the closest star to our sun. The European Southern Observatory's High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher ...

An artist’s conception of the view from one of the four planets orbiting Barnard’s Star. Illustration by R. Proctor/J. Pollard/NOIRLab. Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just ...

For a century, astronomers have been studying Barnard’s Star in the hope of finding planets around it. Excited scientists have found three more planets around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star ...

‘failed’ star) less than 12 light-years from the Sun. It is the nearest yet known. Now designated Epsilon Indi B, it is a companion to a well-known bright planets and stars. PR Photo 03a/03: Epsilon ...