Friday, November 28, 2025

Water Retention on Earth-Like Planets Around Variable Stars

Artist’s illustration of an M-type star discharging a solar flare. (Credit: NASA/Casey Reed)

What can star variability—changes in a star’s brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is what a recent study accepted to The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the interaction between a star’s activity and exoplanetary atmospheres. This study has the potential to help astronomers better understand how star variability plays a role in finding habitable exoplanets, specifically around stars that are different from our Sun.



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