“Imagine a ‘habitable zone for complex life’ defined as a safe zone where it would be plausible to support rich ecosystems like we find on Earth today,” says Timothy Lyons, a biogeochemist at UC-Riverside who is also on the study team.
“Our results indicate that complex ecosystems like ours cannot exist in most regions of the habitable zone as traditionally defined.”
Not a lot of planets can sustain life!
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