Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting an ultracool red dwarf star similar in size to Jupiter. The red dwarf, located some 55 light-years away, is 100 times less bright than the sun ...

Most stars in the cosmos are small, cool red dwarfs, yet the only intelligent life we know orbits a relatively rare yellow ...

Red dwarfs are very-low-mass stars. Image by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Chris Smith (USRA): Lead Producer - Public Domain Red dwarfs are very-low-mass stars. Image by NASA's Goddard Space ...

Scientists using a NASA space telescope have discovered a tantalizing world. It's about the size of Earth, sits remarkably close to our solar system, and could be comfortable for life as we know it.

This artist’s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. Astronomers have estimated that there are tens of billions of such rocky worlds orbiting faint red dwarf stars in the ...

Small red stars make up three out of every four stars in the galaxy, and many host planets. Credit: Johns Hopkins APL illustration Perhaps surprisingly, the majority of stars in the galaxy are not sun ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. An artistic impression of Trappist-1 b shortly before it ...

How did this red dwarf star 240 light-years away end up with a gas giant planet? Credit: University of Warwick / Mark Garlick illustration Astronomers have discovered a world outside the solar system ...

Scott Wolk's research, presented at the 245th American Astronomical Society meeting, focused on the X-ray emissions of Wolf 359, a red dwarf star approximately 8 light-years from Earth, to assess the ...

Robin Brown, a lecturer in journalism, and his brother Noel, an associate professor in film at Liverpool Hope University, ...