But that wasn't the first time the star had tricked astronomers into thinking it had planets. Astronomer Peter van de Kamp thought he had discovered two gas giant planets around Barnard’s star ...

The innermost planet in the system is planet d (the planets are named in order of discovery, not distance from the star), which has a mass just 26% that of Earth's and orbits Barnard's Star every ...

Astronomers have discovered four "sub-Earth" planets around Barnard's Star, one of the closest star systems to Earth. Scientists have been looking for planets around this star for many decades.

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

Perhaps no other star system has elicited so much wonder, mystery and frustration as Barnard’s Star. Astronomers announced last Wednesday they’d discovered a planet in its thrall weighing in ...

To zip around Barnard’s Star once every three days, the planet would have to be just 5 percent of the distance between Mercury and the Sun. Barnard’s Star is much dimmer and cooler than our ...

Astronomers detect a planet near Barnard's star, which is relatively close to Earth Only six light-years from the Sun, Barnard b is boiling hot, but the new planet hints at other nearby worlds ...

Barnard’s Star has served as a kind of white whale for astronomers over the decades as they have tried to find evidence of planets orbiting it, only to be disproven as false positives later ...

A planet three times more massive than Earth may be lurking around the second-closest star system to our cosmic neighborhood. Astronomers say they have found evidence for a so-called “super ...

This rocky planet, discovered with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, is smaller than Earth, and flies around its tiny cool star every three days. Barnard's star is ...

Astronomer Peter van de Kamp thought he had discovered two gas giant planets around Barnard’s star, the first as long ago as the 1960s. Some astronomers say he may have died believing he was the ...