red-dwarf stars

NASA Kepler, Kepler space telescope, red dwarf stars, exoplanets, NASA Tess, Kepler K2 mission, transit method, radial velocity method, exobiology, Goldilocks zone, habitable zone, SETI, Milky Way galaxy,

Farewell to Kepler, the First Great Planet-Hunter

exoplanets, extraterrestrial life, High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher, Mars, Proxima Centauri, red-dwarf stars, solar flare, SpaceX, terminator, tidal locking, TRAPPIST-1, twilight zone, Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph

What’re the Possibilities for Life Around the Universe’s Most Common Stars?

An artist's impression of Kepler-452b and its size compared to Earth. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech

NASA Finds Earth’s Bigger, Older Cousin