Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

Figure1: Infrared image showing the directly imaged brown dwarf companion J1446B (dot indicated by the arrow). The central red dwarf (J1446) is masked in white during image processing. The scale bar ...

A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby planets. On Earth, coronal mass ejections (CMEs) like the one we experienced ...

An artist’s impression of an eruption from a large red star and its effect on a small planet near it: the small blue object with a faint, wispy trail, indicating its atmosphere being blown off. (Olena ...