The one thing that might save the situation is that a planet in a red dwarf’s habitable zone would become tidally locked within a few hundred million years after formation, but stripping away the atmosphere could take up to around 2 billion years. This gap might be long enough for intelligent life forms to evolve in the temperate zone created by the tidal locking.
The one thing that might save the situation is that a planet in a red dwarf’s habitable zone would become tidally locked within a few hundred million years after formation, but stripping away the atmosphere could take up to around 2 billion years. This gap might be long enough for intelligent life forms to evolve in the temperate zone created by the tidal locking.