08 December 2021
Iron might be key for finding life on other worlds, new study says
... by which iron influenced the development of complex life forms. As far as we know it, for life to exist it needs access to liquid water. But another element crucial for cell functionality, on Earth at least, is iron. Cells use iron for DNA...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
... with planet-star systems where probable terrestrial planets could be orbiting within the host star's liquid water habitable zone. Water is key to life as we know it and the authors argue that a little more of it would help, especially in the...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... kilometres, Valles Marineris is the largest canyon on Mars.But if water was not capable of carving it out, what was? Lava. ... olivine erupted with lava becomes serpentine upon contact with liquid water in a timescale between 100 and 10,000 years. ...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... Celsius (805 kelvin), chances are that LHS 3844 b doesn’t have any either. “Life as we know it requires liquid water and complex molecules (amino acids, nucleotides). Such molecules cannot survive in temperatures greater than 200 degrees...
07 July 2017
Unexpected large methanol find near Enceladus
... associated with life on other planets; coupled with a subsurface liquid ocean, it is a tantalising prospect that life could be ... our outer Solar System could host oceans of liquid water and ingredients for life have sparked exciting possibilities ...
31 August 2020
"Dry" meteorites unlock the origin of Earth's water
Of the thousands of planets discovered so far, Earth is the only one known to have liquid water on its surface and how it got that water is a matter of much debate. But now a new study on hydrogen found in a special type of meteorite suggests that...
