Among the most prevalent stars in our galaxy are red dwarfs, M-dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than our Sun. The ...

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 ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

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 ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your place in the universe feel both ordinary and strange. Two facts sharpen the ...

What can planets orbiting red dwarf stars teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Many exoplanet scientists believe if life exists on other worlds, humanity will likely find evidence on a rocky world orbiting a red dwarf star. Credit: NASA / JPL / Ames Research Center / Daniel ...

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 ...

Forty light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit around a dim red dwarf star in one of the most tightly packed ...

Artist rendition of DG CVn, a binary star system made up of two red dwarf stars. Illustration shows it unleashing powerful flares that could impact planet habitability. A groundbreaking study has ...

The closest single star to Earth is home to at least one planet, and it’s a rocky little world not so different from ours. Astronomers spotted a small, rocky planet orbiting the red dwarf known as ...

Planets orbiting close to the most abundant and longest-lasting stars in our Milky Way may be less hospitable to life than previously thought. This conclusion comes from a new study using NASA's ...