Harsh space weather may doom potential life on red-dwarf planets
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 06:19
in Astronomy & Space
Life in the universe might be even rarer than we thought. Recently, astronomers looking for potentially habitable worlds have targeted red dwarf stars because they are the most common type of star, composing 80 percent of the stars in the universe. But a new study shows that harsh space weather might strip the atmosphere of any rocky planet orbiting in a red dwarf's habitable zone.