Because key properties of the actual parent stars were not known, the team chose a dwarf star, Lacertae (EV Lac), which is a relatively young 300 million years old, as a stand-in. EV Lac’s ...

About 8,150 light-years from Earth, a white dwarf star named Gaia22ayj has intrigued astronomers. Its unusual behavior, ...

Impact of stellar wind. ... Recently, a newly discovered Earth-sized planet orbiting Ross 128, a red dwarf star that is smaller and cooler than the sun located some 11 light years from Earth, ...

Chilean researcher Bárbara Rojas-Ayala found a way to measure the "metallicity" of M dwarf (red dwarf) stars which in turn could help science to better understand how planets, stars and galaxies ...

Planetary shields will buckle under stellar winds from their dying stars Date: July 22, 2021 Source: Royal Astronomical Society Summary: Any life identified on planets orbiting white dwarf stars ...

"An M dwarf alone couldn't generate the amount of energy we're seeing. Our data suggests that it is in a binary with another object, which is likely to be a white dwarf, the stellar core of a ...

A stronomers have discovered a record-breaking burst of energy coming from deep space, tracing it to a binary system containing a tiny red dwarf star and a dead stellar remnant called a white dwarf.