Odds of Finding Alien Life Boosted by Billions of Habitable Worlds

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[font=Georgia, Times,]A new estimate of the number of [font=Georgia, Times,]habitable planets[font=Georgia, Times,] orbiting the most common type of stars in our galaxy could have huge consequences for the search for life.[font=Georgia, Times,]

According to a recent study, tens of billions of planets around red dwarfs are likely capable of containing liquid water, dramatically increasing the potential to find signs of life somewhere other than Earth.[font=Georgia, Times,]

Red dwarfs are stars that are fainter, cooler and less massive than the sun. These stars, which typically also live longer than Class G stars like the sun, are thought to make up about 80 percent of the stars in the Milky Way, astronomers have said.

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Yet they seem to forget that Life can also survive in extreme conditions.

 

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[font=Georgia, Times,]Yet they seem to forget that Life can also survive in extreme conditions.

Yeah, but making first contact with a bacterium is just not the same.

 

[DrLeftover]

Extreme Conditions?



You mean like in New Jersey?