Most stars in the cosmos are small, cool red dwarfs, yet the only intelligent life we know orbits a relatively rare yellow ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting an ultracool red dwarf star similar in size to Jupiter. The red dwarf, located some 55 light-years away, is 100 times less bright than the sun ...

What can planets orbiting red dwarf stars teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

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 ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. An artistic impression of Trappist-1 b shortly before it ...

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 ...

Astronomers and researchers have new evidence showing that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 is both larger than expected and has a much slower rotation period than most objects in the solar system. Share on ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states that Earth and humans do not occupy a special or privileged place in the ...

Small red stars make up three out of every four stars in the galaxy, and many host planets. Credit: Johns Hopkins APL illustration Perhaps surprisingly, the majority of stars in the galaxy are not sun ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.