This artist’s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. Astronomers have estimated that there are tens of billions of such rocky worlds orbiting faint red dwarf stars in the ...

Astronomers have discovered a planetary system that appears to flip one of astronomy's most reliable rules on its head.

Astronomers have found a unique planetary system orbiting a red dwarf star. The system includes a rocky planet situated beyond its gaseous siblings, contradicting existing planet formation theories.

A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby planets. On Earth, coronal mass ejections (CMEs) like the one we experienced ...

One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an unseen brown dwarf or "super-Jupiter" blocking its host star's light, ...

A recently published study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has uncovered an intriguing explanation for one of the longest and most unusual stellar dimming events ever observed.