Researchers at UC Riverside have developed a model determining that planets smaller than 0.8 Earth radii cannot retain atmospheres long enough for life to develop.
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New model finds the lower size limit for habitable exoplanets
0.8 Earth radii Minimum habitable radius
30 million years Atmosphere stripped at 0.5 radii
Inevitably Atmospheres lost at 0.7 radii