ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Through service projects, college trips and even exercise classes, the Community Builders program for Roanoke City 8th graders helps build skills and confidence to last a ...

For a century, astronomers have been studying Barnard’s Star in the hope of finding planets around it. First discovered by E. E. Barnard at Yerkes Observatory in 1916, it is the nearest single star ...

Even so, their discovery shows new ways that astronomers can find such small, nearly imperceptible worlds, known as "sub-Earths." It was tremendously challenging to detect these planets. For one, they ...