These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun) orbit close to red dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than the sun, and which make up over 75% of the 200 billion stars in the ...

Scientists have discovered two “super-Earth” exoplanets, one of which is in ... Red dwarf stars are cooler than our Sun and easily the most abundant in our Milky Way galaxy, making up about ...

These changing environments will have a direct impact on the nature of these exoplanets. The most common size of world is one we do not have in our solar system, these planets have radii greater than ...

For the first time, astronomers have taken a direct look at an exoplanet’s insides ... Surprisingly, the dust looks most like nitric oxide and carbon dioxide from vaporized ices, Tusay says.

Can exoplanets have metal-rich atmospheres? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of international researchers investigated a new type ...

"It is only in recent years that we have begun to realize that planets are more complex than we had thought," says Caroline Dorn, Professor for Exoplanets at ETH Zurich. Most of the exoplanets ...