{"id":216789,"date":"2025-06-28T10:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T15:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/tiny-stars-many-earths-potentially-habitable-worlds-may-be-especially-common-around-low-mass-stars"},"modified":"2025-06-28T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T15:13:48","slug":"tiny-stars-many-earths-potentially-habitable-worlds-may-be-especially-common-around-low-mass-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/tiny-stars-many-earths-potentially-habitable-worlds-may-be-especially-common-around-low-mass-stars","title":{"rendered":"Tiny stars, many Earths: Potentially habitable worlds may be especially common around low-mass stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-stars-many-earths-potentially-habitable-worlds-may-be-especially-common-around-low-mass-stars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this finding. By analyzing the data, an international research team succeeded in identifying four new exoplanets and determining their properties.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the researchers were able to show that Earth-like planets are found quite frequently in the orbit of stars with less than a sixth of the mass of our sun. These findings could support the search for potentially life-sustaining worlds in our cosmic neighborhood. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/10.1051\/0004-6361\/202453381\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics.<\/p>\n<p>The CARMENES spectrograph system at the Calar Alto Observatory near Almer\u00eda (Spain) was developed and built at the K\u00f6nigstuhl Observatory of Heidelberg University. It aids astronomers in the search for exoplanets that orbit so-called M-dwarfs. These stars have a mass of less than one-tenth to half the mass of our sun. M-dwarfs are the most abundant stars in our galaxy. They exhibit tiny periodic movements caused by the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gravitational+pull\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gravitational pull<\/a> of orbiting planets, from which researchers can infer the existence of previously undiscovered worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this finding. By analyzing the data, an international research team succeeded in identifying four new exoplanets and determining their properties. At the same time, the researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}