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Science
Keith Cooper

4 rocky exoplanets found around Barnard's Star, one of the sun's nearest neighbors

An illustration of a star above the horizon of a rocky world. Three orbs are small and float in the background.

Scientists have confirmed the existence of four small, rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star — the second closest star system to Earth — using a specialized instrument on the mighty Gemini North telescope in Hawaii. Just six light-years away from us, all the worlds are too hot to support life as we know it.

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