Scientists Estimate 40% of Red Dwarfs Have A Rocky Planet

An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from Science World Report: "Astronomers hunting for rocky planets with the right temperature to support life estimate there may be tens of billions of them in our galaxy alone. A European team said on Wednesday that about 40 percent of red dwarf stars ? the most common type in the Milky Way ? have a so-called 'super-Earth' planet orbiting in a habitable zone that would allow water to flow on the surface."

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