A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.

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Scientists have detected the first direct evidence of a coronal mass ejection from a star beyond our Sun, specifically the M dwarf StKM1-1262. This ma ...

Can planets orbiting M dwarf stars become habitable, or does the star’s activity prevent it? This is what a recent study ...

Taejas Venkataraman explores what the discovery of white dwarf pollution can teach us about scientific investigation ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...