ZAH@uniheidelberg<p>A new study by astronomers <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@zah_unihd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>zah_unihd</span></a></span> and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CARMENES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CARMENES</span></a> project <a href="https://carmenes.caha.es/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">carmenes.caha.es/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> shows that very low-mass stars with less than a sixth of the mass of the Sun are particularly likely to host <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/earthlikeplanets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>earthlikeplanets</span></a>. On average, there are about two per star, which could significantly increase the chances of finding life-friendly worlds in our cosmic neighborhood. The results have now been published in Astronomy & Astrophysics <a href="https://www.aanda.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">aanda.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Heidelberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Heidelberg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/earthlikeplanets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>earthlikeplanets</span></a></p>