Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...
Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...
The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...
These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and ...
A new world has just been found orbiting a Sun-like star only 20 light-years away, and it could be one of the most promising ...
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
Astronomers have identified a super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star just 20 light-years away, making it one of the closest and ...