Super-Earth Discovered Orbiting Barnard’s Star, Our 2nd Nearest Neighbour. • Red Dots campaign uncovers compelling evidence of exoplanet around closest single star to Sun 14 November 2018 VIDEO: The nearest single star to the Sun hosts an exoplanet at least 3.2 times as massive as Earth — a so-called super-Earth. Data from a worldwide array of telescopes, including ESO’s planet-hunting HARPS instrument, have revealed this frozen, dimly lit world. The newly discovered planet is the second-closest