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New studies reveal that older stars have weaker magnetic braking, suggesting that they might be prime locations for finding alien life. Once upon a cosmic time, scientists assumed that stars apply an eternal magnetic brake, causing an endless slowdown of their rotation. With new observations and
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.