Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...

Barnard’s Star has fascinated astronomers for decades. At just six light-years away, it is the second-closest single star to ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

(Earth, of course, is the eighth planet, and poor Pluto was demoted in 2006 and is now considered a dwarf planet.) Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye.

Until that happens, the best the universe can offer is aligning planets, we’re afraid – but it’s still pretty exciting. For a few brief evenings this week seven planets in our solar system ...

Seven planets are aligning in the night sky this week, creating a brief chance to see a "planetary parade." Worldwide, the best day to see the alignment is today, Feb. 28. Mercury, Venus ...

For a brief moment on Friday, every planet will appear in the night sky simultaneously in a rare celestial spectacle. This so-called planetary parade, which will occur shortly after sunset on 28 ...

This latest planetary alignment or "planet parade" - set to take place on the evening of Feb. 28, just after dusk, according to SkyatNightMagazine. Once they are all in place, seven of the eight ...

Thanks to this method, we have discovered many planets in orbit around certain stars. Trappist-1, a red dwarf star located 40 light-years from Earth, has seven Earth-sized planets that all transit ...