Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red dwarfs dominate the neighborhood and often host rocky worlds in temperate orbits. Yet their environments may hinder complex ...

What if extraterrestrial life is hiding in places we had completely ruled out? For decades, astronomers have focused their ...

Scott Wolk's research, presented at the 245th American Astronomical Society meeting, focused on the X-ray emissions of Wolf 359, a red dwarf star approximately 8 light-years from Earth, to assess the ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to find it around many of the most common stars in the galaxy. Earth-like ...

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For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your place in the universe feel both ordinary and strange. Two facts sharpen the ...