Extraterrestrial #life has the potential to exist on distant #exoplanets inside the terminator zone, which is a ring on #planets that have one side that always faces its #star and one side that is always dark.

Such planets are common because they exist around stars that make up about 70 percent of the stars seen in the night sky—so-called M-dwarf stars, which are relatively dimmer than our sun.

#astronomy
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-terminator-zones-distant-planets-harbor.html

Paper by Lobo et al. (2023): https://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aca970