New Observations Fail to Confirm a Planet at Barnard’s Star

With all the new discoveries that seem to occur almost monthly, it’s sometimes hard to remember that finding exoplanets is still a relatively new and difficult science.  As part of those continual discoveries, back in 2018 a team announced they had found a planet candidate around Barnard’s Star, one of the closest to our own.  Now, a different team has re-analyzed the data, collected some new data, and found that the planet detection was likely a false positive.  

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