The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

With the promise of revolutionizing our view of nearby star systems, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is poised to do ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

It will be essential for us as a species to maintain superiority, but [...] we are not the pinnacle of creation,” he says.

NASA has confirmed over 5,000 exoplanets, ranging from scorching gas giants to icy water worlds, some with the potential to ...

From a world-class jazz bassist to a brand new space opera, there are a lot cool shows to catch in the Bay Area.

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Are you into music that’s really out there, as in, space? Oakland is holding a performance of a science-fiction opera that ...

Scientists have discovered four tiny planets circling our second-closest star system, Barnard’s Star. The reddish ball of gas is only six light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus.

That sense of discovery is incredible.” While the Proxima Centauri system is the closest to our solar system at a distance of 4.25 light-years away, it comprises three stars circling one another ...