An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

Barnard’s Star, discovered by American astronomer E.E. Barnard in 1916, is a low-mass red dwarf, one of the most common types of stars.

Barnard’s Star is a dim, reddish ball of gas just six light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. It is the nearest stand-alone star to our sun, but with only one-fifth the mass ...

As lone stars go, there’s nothing quite so distinctive as Barnard’s Star. After the Alpha Centauri system, it is our closest neighbor, a red dwarf one-fifth the size of the Sun and 4,500 ...

Barnard's star is six light-years away from us, in the constellation Ophiuchus. The only closer stars are the trio that make up the Alpha Centauri system. Anyone have déjà vu?

Barnard’s Star is a magnitude 9.5 star moving almost due north against the stars of Ophiuchus at a rate of 1° every 351 years. This, the highest proper motion known of any star, is due to a ...

Barnard's Star b is enormous for a rocky planet, at least 3.2 times as massive as Earth. Although its orbit is roughly the same as Mercury's, the planet is probably a freezing wasteland thanks to ...

By contrast, Barnard’s star is a small red dwarf that’s older than the sun and about a sixth its size. It’s invisible without a decent telescope—the close star wasn’t even discovered ...

Barnard’s star is also a very small and dim type of star known as a red dwarf. In fact, it is just 14 percent the mass of our own Sun, and it’s so faint that you need a telescope to see it.

Barnard's Star b is about 3.2 times more massive than our home planet, making it a "super-Earth" — a class of worlds significantly larger than Earth but smaller than ice giants such as Neptune.