Red Dwarf Stars
Water Worlds Don’t Stay Wet for Very Long
A new study led by Princeton University shows that water worlds are likely to be stripped of their atmospheres (and…
New Study Claims that TRAPPIST-1 Could Also Have Gas Giants
A new study led by researchers from the Carnegie Institute of Science indicates that TRAPPIST-1 could also be orbited by…
Ultraviolet Light Could Point the Way To Life Throughout the Universe
A new study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics indicates that UV radiation may be the key to finding…
Potentially Habitable, Tidally-Locked Exoplanets May be Very Common, say New Study
A new study from the University of Washington indicates that tidally-locked planets may be quite common, a finding which has…
Bad News For Proxima b: An Earth-Like Atmosphere Might Not Survive There
A new study led by researchers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center indicates that Proxima b would be likely to…
Earth-Sized Planet Takes Just Four Hours to Orbit its Star
The Kepler space observatory has made some interesting finds since it began its mission back in March of 2009. Even…
Strange Radio Signals Detected from a Nearby Star
A recent survey conducted by the Arecibo Observatory detected a strange radio signal coming from Ross 128, a star system…
Even Though Red Dwarfs Have Long Lasting Habitable Zones, They’d be Brutal to Life
Two new studies from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have thrown some cold water on the notion that planets…
Planets Around Stars like Proxima Centauri are Probably Earth-Sized Water Worlds
A new study from the University of Bern indicates that most planets that orbit red dwarf stars might be water…
How Many Planets are There in the Galaxy?
Humans have wondered how many planets could exist within our Galaxy, and some of our best estimates say there could…