Is there any way life could survive on red dwarf planets? New research from scientists in Portugal and Germany examines that question. To test the idea of red dwarf exoplanet habitability ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

And red dwarf stars like Wolf 359 are known to produce a lot of radiation — often in the form of flares and other lash-outs. Because of the small size of such stars, planets around them would ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The outer limit of the habitable zone for Wolf 359 is about 15% of the distance between Earth and the sun, because the red dwarf is much less bright than the sun. Neither of the planet candidates ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

A new study by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton highlights the challenges planets ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.