Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth, has been found to have four tiny planets in its orbit in an 'exciting' discovery by astronomers. Each of the four discovered planets are only ...

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Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. Astronomers have revealed new evidence ...

Coel Hellier has received research council grants for the discovery of exoplanets. Barnard’s Star is a small, dim star, of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is ...

Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA's now-retired space telescope Kepler. It found that larger planets with non-circular orbits are more ...