Scientists have found that around one-third of planets orbiting dwarf stars across the galaxy may orbit at the right distance for liquid water to exist.
, this makes these planets a candidate for the existence of life.
Stock image of a planet orbiting a red dwarf star. Scientists have found that one-third of the planets orbiting this type of star may be in the Goldilocks Zone of their star."I think this result is really important for the next decade of exoplanet research, because eyes are shifting toward this population of stars," co-author of the paper and doctoral student at the Univerity of Florida, Sheila Sagear, said in a statement.
"These stars are excellent targets to look for small planets in an orbit where it's conceivable that water might be liquid and therefore the planet might be habitable." Planets orbiting M-dwarf stars, which are stars only around the size of Jupiter, are the most common form of exoplanets, as these dwarf stars themselves are the most frequent in our galaxy.
"Cool red dwarf stars...are the most common type of stars , so if we are looking for life on exoplanets around other stars, these types of stars are of high interest. In fact, our closest star Proxima Centauri is also a red dwarf and also has a planet Proxima Centauri b in the traditional habitable zone—i.e.
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