No change of life on other planets. HARSH SPACE WEATHER DOOMS LIFE ON RED DWARF PLANETS: Red dwarfs are by far the most numerous type of star in the Galaxy, accounting for as much as 80% of the stellar population of the Milky Way. Because of this, astronomers looking for potentially habitable worlds have targeted red dwarf stars. A new study, however, shows that harsh space weather might strip the atmosphere of any rocky planet orbiting in a red dwarfs habitable zone, dooming life as we would know it in a majority of the Galaxys planetary systems. [full story spaceweather/
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