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

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Spring officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere on March 20 with the vernal equinox as the entire world experiences an ...

to complete a single revolution of our star. The different speeds of the planets mean that, on occasion, several of them can be roughly lined up on the same side of the Sun. From Earth ...

Each planet in our solar system takes a different ... plus a little bit more to complete a revolution around the sun, so about 365.25 days to be exact. And since we're in February, sometimes ...

As planets whirl around the sun at different speeds — Mercury orbits the sun every 88 days, while Jupiter makes a revolution roughly every 4,333 days — they occasionally align to our ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

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

"All the planets go around the sun, like on a racetrack, they just run around the racetrack. And right now, they're all on the same track, so that you can see them at night." "They do appear ...

Diminutive Barnard's Star is closer in size to Jupiter than to the Sun. Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us. The planets newly discovered around Barnard's ...

Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard's Star. As detailed in a new paper published ...

MAROON-X measures the "radial velocity" — the slight wobble back and forth of Barnard's Star as it revolves around the center of mass shared between itself and the four orbiting planets.