A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

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 ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Instead, the habitable zone around Barnard's Star would coincide with worlds farther out, with orbital periods of between 10 and 42 days. So far, no planets have been found that far out from the star.

A planet has been discovered lurking in the habitable zone of not one, but two, stars. This far-off planet, situated around 310 light-years from Earth, has been found to exist within the two-star ...

both of which were situated within the habitable zone of their small star. Finding potentially habitable planets, let alone a pair of habitable planet candidates, isn’t easy. Because TOI-700 is ...

able to rule out with a fair degree of certainty the existence of other exoplanets with masses comparable to Earth in Barnard Star’s habitable zone — the region of space around a star that is ...

Astronomers have found a super-Earth, HD 20794 d, in the habitable zone around a Sun-like star 20 light-years away. With a mass six times that of Earth and a 647-day orbit, it could have ...

Unfortunately, the planets are unlikely to harbor life since they're not in Barnard Star's habitable zone, the area around a star where temperatures allow liquid water to exist on a given planet's ...