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 ...
Figure1: Infrared image showing the directly imaged brown dwarf companion J1446B (dot indicated by the arrow). The central red dwarf (J1446) is masked in white during image processing. The scale bar ...
Most stars in the cosmos are small, cool red dwarfs, yet the only intelligent life we know orbits a relatively rare yellow dwarf under a blue sky. That mismatch is at the heart of the “red sky paradox ...
Five exoplanets orbit the red dwarf star L 98-59, about 35 light-years away. In the foreground is a newly discovered super Earth, known as L 98-59 f. Credit: Benoit Gougeon / Université de Montréal ...