July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... to be the SLS/Artemis set (at 2678), but one should not underestimate the competition from science fiction (Red Dwarf’s Starbug had 4474 votes). A previous pitch featured an Apollo launch tower and mobile platform, scaled to match...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile detected a planet the size of Earth orbiting Proxima Centauri, the small red dwarf star in the nearby Alpha Centauri system. The planet orbits in the habitable zone of that star, meaning...
18 April 2016
New Earth-like planet found in GJ 832 planetary system
... as compared with Earth. Image credit: PHL / UPR Arecibo. The central star in question is GJ 832, a main sequence red dwarf star (of a spectral type M1.5V) with a mass just less than half of that of our Sun, (0.45 Solar masses), located...
03 November 2017
Dust belt hints at more planets around our nearest star
... temperate exoworld orbiting at just four million kilometres from its parent star – Proxima Centauri – the faint red dwarf that lies just four light-years away from us. Although much has been speculated about Proxima...
01 December 2017
Search for life more difficult than previously assumed
... the most promising of the TRAPPIST-1 family of planets, TRAPPIST-1d, orbit their host stars, both of which are red dwarfs, in 25 days or fewer. One consequence of this, is that both planets have one side that permanently faces their...
27 July 2019
Hundreds of new planet candidates detected by Kepler
... our sun as it was designed to, it was proposed that Kepler search for habitable worlds around smaller, dimmer red dwarfs in a different direction to which it had been looking – a workaround to overcame its new limitations. Its second shot at planet...
