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Barnard’s Star exoplanets deemed dry and lifeless

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Latest: Barnard’s Star planets revealed as magnesium-rich rocky worlds

A Cambridge research team has refined the characterisation of the four small planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the Sun’s nearest neighbour after Alpha Centauri. Discovered in 2025, these rocky worlds are larger than Mars