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One of the 15 newly discovered planets was found orbiting one of the brightest red dwarf stars, called K2-155, located about 200 light years away from Earth.

15 New Planets Discovered Near Solar System

A new study of archival ultraviolet observations from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft detected dozens of flares from red dwarf stars.

United States : Mini-Flares Potentially Jeopardize Habitability of Planets Circling Red Dwarf Stars

Red dwarf stars are the longest-lived of all the stars.

Red dwarf stars are coolest - at 3000C

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, the astronomers have tested whether the strength of the electromagnetic force is altered in the strong gravitational field of a white dwarf star.

Does electromagnetic force's strength change in white dwarf star's gravitational field?

Projecting outward based on the estimated 75 billion red dwarf stars in our galaxy, they arrived at the prediction that around six percent of red dwarfs should have an Earth-like planet, and the nearest one could be just 13 light years away.

Earth-like planets may be closer than thought-study

All these solutions involve a white dwarf star that somehow increases in mass to the highest limit.

Mystery of Source of Supernova in Nearby Galaxy Solved

When scientists previously estimated the total number of stars, they assumed that all galaxies had the same ratio of dwarf stars as the Milky Way, which is spiral-shaped.

Starry starry starry night: Star count may triple

Once they discovered that there was a class of stars really big, called giants, they carved the universe up into dwarfs and giants," says Jim Holberg, a scientist who studies dwarf stars at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

The most popular stars

Until recently, red dwarf stars were not considered capable of hosting planets that could support life.

Swiss-led team finds 'another' earth

They have investigated 500 white dwarf stars and it's the only one like it they've found.

Boffins follow the star

Scattered among the galaxy are brown dwarf stars, capable of producing energy to heat colonizing stations and power starships.

Schroeder, Karl. Permanence

There are many candidates for dark matter, including undetected brown dwarf stars, white dwarf stars, black holes, or neutrinos with mass (a neutrino is a fundamental nuclear particle that is electrically neutral and of much smaller mass, if any at all, than an electron).