Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The orbit Venus takes around the sun periodically results in a phenomenon astronomers refer to as an inferior conjunction, which occurs when the planet transitions from appearing in the evening ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

"I noted that when I took the image that it would not, of course, be possible to photograph the lowest planets at the moment of sunset — glare from the sun rendering this task impossible," Dury ...

The planets closely orbit Barnard’s Star, zipping around their stellar host in a matter of days, compared with the year it takes Earth to complete one orbit around the sun. The outermost planet ...

All it requires is their orbits bringing them to the same side of the Sun as the Earth. But it's remarkably rare for six planets to align, and even rarer for seven. Only five planets, Mars ...

For the best chances, spectators should look at the sky as soon as the sun sets. That's when the planets will make a brief appearance. Tokyo started seeing the parade first, on Feb. 22 ...