habitability of planets around red dwarf stars

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2 documents for habitability of planets around red dwarf stars

- Evidence of Alien Life Mounting, Not Proven: ; Scientists Says Microbe That Can Live On Arsenic, Potentially Habitable Planet Are Important Finds
WASHINGTON - Lately, a handful of new discoveries make it seem more likely that we are not alone - that there is life somewhere else in the universe. In the past several days, scientists have reported there are three times as many stars as they previously thought. Another group of researchers discovered a microbe can live on arsenic, expanding our understanding of how life can thrive in the most harsh environments. And earlier this year, astronomers for the first time said they'd found a potentially habitable planet.

... Nature add to the interest in weird planets outside our solar system, though they don't exactl...Now, Shostak said, it's the other way around. He said that given the mounting evidence, to beli... out the universe's most common stars: red dwarfs, which are smaller than our sun and dimmer. Up to ...The scientists considered habitability and found conditions near these small stars wouldn...
- Charleston Daily Mail
- December 09, 2010
- Nasa and Nsf-Funded Research Finds First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A team of planet hunters from the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has announced the discovery of a planet with three times the mass of Earth orbiting a nearby star at a distance that places it squarely in the middle of the star's "habitable zone. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO)

...Habitability depends on many factors, but having liquid water a... 11 years of observations of the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 581 using the HIRES spectrometer on th... Earth), which can reveal the presence of planets. The gravitational tug of an orbiting planet cause...-term observations of the wobble of nearby stars enabled the detection of this multi-planetary syst... reports the discovery of two new planets around Gliese 581. This brings the total number of known ...
- U.S. Newswire
- September 29, 2010