Barnard's Star is the closest lone star to our sun. The star is named after the American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard, who measured its motion relative to the Sun back in 1916. The exoplanet ...

the closest single star to our sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus, a year lasts just over three Earth days. The team's observations also hint at the ...

Researchers revealed that the planet, named HD 20794 d, has a mass six times greater than Earth's and orbits within the ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill discusses his fascination with daytime moonrises and what celestial movements ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

Lalande 21185 is one of the brightest red dwarfs close to Earth — though, like others of its kind, it’s still too dim to see with the naked eye. At 8 light-years away, it can be found in the southern ...

The distance from the Sun to Proxima Centauri, our next nearest star, is approximately 4.25 light years. Barnard's Star is a red dwarf star and is the fourth nearest star to the Sun at ...

It had already swept past the Sun 21 times, getting ever nearer, but the Christmas Eve visit was record-breaking. At its closest approach, the probe was 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) from our ...

The Qatar Calendar House announced that Venus, the brightest planet in our solar system, will reach its closest point to the Sun (perihelion) on Wednesday evening. Venus will be approximately ...