Illustration of Barnard's Star as seen from the surface of one of its planets. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor/J. Pollard Just 5.96 light-years from Earth sits ...

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Barnard's Star is the second-nearest star system to Earth, and four tiny planets have been discovered around it ...