Stellar flares may expand habitable regions around small stars
The search for extraterrestrial life has traditionally focused on exoplanets orbiting Sun-like stars, which are G-type stars. But lower-mass stars, called K-type and M-type stars, are rapidly becoming objects of astrobiology, primarily because they have much longer lifetimes. This also means that the habitable zone (HZ), the distance from the star where liquid water can … Read more