A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby planets. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates.

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 ...

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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 ...

How did this red dwarf star 240 light-years away end up with a gas giant planet? Credit: University of Warwick / Mark Garlick illustration Astronomers have discovered a world outside the solar system ...

An artist's impression of the planetary system surrounding LHS 1903, a small red dwarf star cooler and dimmer than our Sun. (European Space Agency) An artist's illustration shows four planets of ...

A giant exoplanet is surprisingly chill given how close it is to its red dwarf star — perhaps because the star is so little.