Cloud behavior expands habitable zone of alien planets
Monday, July 1, 2013 - 12:00
in Astronomy & Space
A new study that calculates the influence of cloud behavior on climate doubles the number of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in the universe. This finding means that in the Milky Way galaxy alone, 60 billion planets may be orbiting red dwarf stars in the habitable zone.