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Earth-size planet discovered around cool red dwarf star shares its name with a biscuit
Space via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoAstronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting a red dwarf star, making just the second...
Bad news for alien life? Even calm red dwarf stars rage more violently than the sun
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoa small planet beside a violent star A new study of red dwarf stars has revealed that even the...
Could a star ever become a planet?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIllustration of a red planet surrounded by asteroids. A star shine in the background. Stars twinkle in the night sky, even millions of light-years away,...
There may be hundreds of millions of habitable planets in the Milky Way, new study suggests
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA rocky planet orbits a small, red star known as a red dwarf -- the most common type of star in the...
Bizarre object hotter than the sun is orbiting a distant star at breakneck speed
Space via Yahoo News· 11 months agoa red planet in space A weird, super-hot celestial body is breaking records and challenging...
Fast-spinning white dwarf pulsar, the 2nd we've ever discovered, sheds light on how stars evolve
Space via Yahoo News· 12 months agoAstronomers have discovered a second example of a white dwarf pulsar, a rapidly spinning stellar...
Newly discovered planet may hold key to alien life, study says
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA new Earth-sized rocky planet discovered about 31 light years away may be a “promising target” to...
Astronomers discover potential habitable exoplanet only 31 light-years from Earth
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn artist's depiction of Wolf 1069 b. Although astronomers have discovered more than 5,200...
From star to stars: Astrophysicist Aomawa Shields traces her journey from acting to astronomy
Salon via Yahoo News· 10 months agoTRAPPIST-1 planetary system NASA/JPL-Caltech As a scientist studying exoplanets, Aomawa Shields,...
What's the largest planet in the universe?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoHuge, red "super-Jupiter" exoplanet orbits its star. Since astronomers first looked beyond the solar system three decades ago to discover extrasolar...
