There's a Frozen Super-Earth Orbiting Barnard's Star, The Second Closest Star System

Just six light-years from Earth, the second closest star system to our sun hosts a frozen super-Earth, according to new findings by an international team of researchers.Barnard’s Star is a small, ancient kind of sun called a red dwarf. And while it's not easily visible without a telescope, Barnard's Star has long attracted astronomer's gaze as the fastest moving star in the night sky. Astronomers now say it's also home to a frozen exoplanet at least three times as massive as Earth, ma