https://spacescoop.org/en/scoops/2221/beach-friendly-earth-like-exoplanets/

Recently a team led by Tadahiro Kimura from the University of Tokyo and Masahiro Ikoma from the NAOJ, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, developed a new computer simulation and got some positive results. 

 

By making a computer model of water resulting from interactions between the hot, molten surface of a young planet and its early atmosphere, the team found that the water content in planets can range much wider than expected. 

 

The study then goes on to show that within this range, there could be more of these Earth-sized planets, maybe as much as 3% of those that are found, in the habitable zones of red dwarfs with enough water to support a temperate climate.

 

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