Scientists using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope have peered into the interstellar medium like never before, uncovering ...

The nearest single star to the Solar System has just yielded ... The only stars closer to Earth are the Centauri trinary system. Barnard's star isn't just a lone star, like the Sun; it's a red ...

Astronomers have spotted four smaller-than-Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard's Star. According to the astronomers, these exoplanets — which are among ...

Robert Lee Hotz covered new research and its impact on society for The Wall Street Journal.

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system ... Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighboring star system, the Breakthrough ...

Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the Earth at the centre of it. As observations of the motions of the planets became more detailed, the descriptions of the Solar ...