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Bean and Kempton looked at the light spectrum signature from the large planet as it passed in front of the dwarf star, and the result led to two possible conclusions: steam bath or haze.

Starry starry starry night: Star count may triple

A planet originally ruled out as having the ability to sustain liquid water, because it was orbiting too near a red dwarf star, may still have the ability to have liquid water on its surface.

Number Of Planets That Could Have Water Doubled, 60 Billion In Milky Way Alone, Due To The Effect Of Clouds

Statistically, this means that six percent of all red dwarf stars should have an Earth-like planet.

Earth-like planets may be in our own backyard

Red dwarf stars tend to persist for much longer than yellow stars like our sun, so it's possible that if there is life on these planets, they could have a much longer evolutionary history.

Earth-Like Planets Probably 'In Our Own Backyard': Study

The planet, which closely orbits the dwarf star GJ 436, has a diameter about four times Earth's and appears to be a hot version of the ice giants Neptune and Uranus.

Water world: extrasolar planet is loaded with hot ice

This is the first time that such low proportions of carbon have been measured in the atmospheres of white dwarf stars polluted by debris.

White dwarf stars caught in the act of swallowing up 'earth-like' exoplanets

Red dwarf stars account for 80 per cent of the 200 to 400 billion stars in our galaxy and scientists now believe that 40 per cent of those might have a planet in the habitable zone, the Daily Mail reported.

Billions of habitable worlds lurking in Milky Way boost odds of finding alien life

A University of Oklahoma assistant professor and colleagues identified these 11-12-billion-year-old white dwarf stars only 100 light years away from Earth.

12 bln-Yr-old white dwarf stars merely 100 light years away identified

Our new observations with HARPS mean that about 40% of all red dwarf stars have a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone where liquid water can exist on the surface of the planet," said Xavier Bonfils (IPAG, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble, France), the leader of the team.

Many billions of super-Earths may be orbiting red dwarfs in Milky Way

White dwarf stars are small but very dense stars, and red giants are stars that swell to massive proportions when they approach middle age.

'Supernova of a generation' was actually 'white dwarf' star

Along with the whirling descent of small black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarf stars into supermassive black holes, "these sources are expected to be the 'bread and butter' of the LIGO/ VlRGO .

The last three minutes: computing the shape of gravitational waves

As part of a large survey of nearby brown dwarfs-objects that occupy the mass gap between dwarf stars and giant planets - scientists from the University of Toronto used an infrared camera on the 2.