These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun) orbit close to red dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than the sun, and which make up over 75% of the 200 billion stars in the ...
Gliese 581 is a red dwarf star about 20 light-years ... Trifonov et al; 'The CARMENES Search for Exoplanets Around M Dwarf Stars', Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol 609 (2018) https://www.aanda.org ...
Red dwarf stars are cooler than our Sun and easily ... It was found by accident while scientists checked their initial discovery of another exoplanet around the same star, called LP 890-9/TOI ...
The star is an extremely faint "red dwarf" that's about 3% as bright as ... It's the second closest exoplanet to Earth after Proxima Centauri b, whose discovery was announced in 2016.
Astronomers have identified an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting an ultracool red dwarf star, roughly 55 light-years from Earth. The star, similar in size to Jupiter, is 100 times less bright and half ...
For instance, three of the smallest rocky exoplanets yet detected—each no larger than Mars—closely orbit the red dwarf star KOI-961 and are far too hot to host life. Calculations based on ...
"We know that the majority of exoplanets will produce basalts ... from the super Earth exoplanet LHS 3844b, which orbits a red dwarf a little more than 48 light-years away. Ishan Mishra, working ...