New research reveals that one-third of planets orbiting M dwarf stars, the most common type of star in the Milky Way, could potentially host liquid water and life as we know it.
George R. Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, is the principal investigator for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Sky Survey (TESS) Explorer mission, which has discovered thousands of new planets since its launch in 2018.
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