The water could have been liquid somewhere then, but it's still not the most probable time for life to emerge. The same author wrote in 2016: https://iopscienc

The water could have been liquid somewhere then, but it's still not the most probable time for life to emerge. The same author wrote in 2016: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/08/040 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/08... "We find that unless habitability around low mass stars is suppressed, life is most likely to exist near ~ 0.1M⊙ stars ten trillion years from now. Spectroscopic searches for biosignatures in the atmospheres of transiting Earth-mass planets around low mass stars will determine whether present-day life is indeed premature or typical from a cosmic perspective."