Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration depicts what the surface of one of the exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star may look like. The other three planets ...

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For a century, astronomers have been studying Barnard’s Star in the hope of finding planets around it. Excited scientists have found three more planets around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star ...

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(CNN) — After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star system to Earth. The four planets are ...