A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby planets. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates.

This artist’s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. Astronomers have estimated that there are tens of billions of such rocky worlds orbiting faint red dwarf stars in the ...

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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 ...