Explore the impact of stellar flares on the potential for alien life. Discover how higher levels of UV radiation can both ...

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 ...

Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have been unable to determine whether the dwarf planet’s organics were produced by its own chemical processes or ...

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

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.