Join us on a journey to the Alpha Centauri system,the closest star system to Earth and one of the most promising locations in ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard's stars is the closest single star to Earth. Credit: ESO ...

Red dwarf stars are much less massive than the Sun, and are expected to live much longer lives. Barnard's Star is about 10 billion years old — or over twice the age of our Sun. Astronomers already ...

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