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...
19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
... exist here. But, Proxima Centauri is not the only possible star that might be hiding an exoplanet. This red dwarf is one of three stars in the Alpha Centauri system and the other two are very similar to our...
