NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the ...

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

The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

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

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Astronomers have been looking for exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star, the nearest solitary star to Earth at just 5.96 ...

New research suggests that powerful star explosions, called supernovae, may have caused at least two mass extinctions in ...

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

As civilizations become more and more advanced, their power needs also increase. It's likely that an advanced civilization ...

Astronomers have made an exciting breakthrough by discovering four sub-Earth exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our closest ...

"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...