Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red dwarfs dominate the neighborhood and often host rocky worlds in temperate orbits. Yet their environments may hinder complex ...

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 ...

Most stars in the cosmos are small, cool red dwarfs, yet the only intelligent life we know orbits a relatively rare yellow dwarf under a blue sky. That mismatch is at the heart of the “red sky paradox ...

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 ...

Even though exoplanet science has advanced significantly in the last decade or two, we're still in an unfortunate situation. Scientists can only make educated guesses about which exoplanets may be ...

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 ...