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 ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Astronomers have long suspected that there was at least one exoplanet orbiting Barnard's Star — a red dwarf with a mass ...

Fellipe Abreu/Getty Images The planets are 20% to 30% the mass of Earth and make a full orbit around the sun in days, ...

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

These planets were not like Earth ... astronomer Adriaan van Maanen was looking for stars that happened to be near the sun in space. To do this, he searched for stars that had high proper motion ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing ...

Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...