A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in contention as targets of missions for future human generations.

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

Astronomers have discovered four small planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the second-closest star system to Earth, using ...

What's significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Since its discovery, the asteroid's probability of an impact with our planet has gone all ...