[cripplecreek]

Calling it “habitable” is an awfully optimistic claim. Interesting story anyway.

[Sopater]

Calling it “habitable” is an awfully optimistic claim.

I agree. I think that they only call it "habitable" because of the temperature. That is ignoring a whole host of things that could render it "inhabitable".

[longtermmemmory]

I thought it would have to have a “van allen belt” to magnetically shield it from solar winds (like earth and Jupiter)

[JamesP81]

Calling it “habitable” is an awfully optimistic claim.

Indeed. Liquid water doesn't do you much good if that water is also full of noxious chemicals and the atmosphere has high concentrations of carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide.