Many Earth-Like Alien Planets Likely Too Hot for Life

Many Earth-like exoplanets that orbit red dwarf stars in the "habitable zone" — the range of distances at which it's thought that liquid water can exist — are actually too hot to host life, a new study suggests. "It was previously assumed that planets with masses similar to Earth would be habitable simply because they were in the habitable zone," study lead author James Owen, of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, said in a statement. Red dwarfs (also know