It is the closest single star to the Sun and the fourth closest ... Barnard’s Star is an old M dwarf star, much smaller and much cooler than our Sun. Very few planets smaller than Earth have ...

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...

It contains three stars, and Proxima Centauri is nearest, 4.25 light years away. Venus, pictured here, is the brightest of the planets in our solar system. No planet other planet will be brighter ...

At 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever found to Earth and the largest apparent single structure in the sky.

Amateur astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a colorful view of the Rho Ophiuchi star-forming region alongside Messier 4 ...

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

Astronomers have spotted four smaller-than-Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system ... "It’s a really exciting find — Barnard’s Star is our cosmic neighbor, and yet we ...

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 ...

From Mercury to Neptune, explore our ... sun and everything that orbits it — planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and even dust and gas. The order of the planets in the solar system, starting ...

The SMC remains one of the closest galaxies to the Milky ... massive stars within the galaxy. These stars, which are over eight times the mass of our sun, typically survive for only a few million ...