Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting ... since the 1990s as astronomers refine their ability to pinpoint such little worlds. Barnard's star, ...
Using 16 years of data from NASA's gamma-ray detecting Fermi spacecraft, astronomers have discovered that "microquasars," systems in which a black hole is slowly devouring a star, may be small ...